Kenneth Wong, MD
Cardiovascular Disease · Raceland, LANPI 1215935986
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 608 payments — averaging $19.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$1K
- Novartis$1K
- Pfizer$1K
- Amgen$965
- AstraZeneca$914
- plus $5K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$11,94999%
- Education$1251%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 86 | $1,456 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 46 | $1,348 |
| Novartis | 73 | $1,274 |
| Pfizer | 76 | $1,073 |
| Amgen | 62 | $965 |
| AstraZeneca | 47 | $914 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 36 | $605 |
| Merck | 35 | $580 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 17 | $501 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 17 | $348 |
| Abbott | 5 | $343 |
| Bayer | 16 | $334 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 19 | $289 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 18 | $258 |
| Abiomed | 6 | $256 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $180 |
| Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. | 1 | $179 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $163 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $162 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 2 | $131 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $98 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $98 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Gilead | 2 | $32 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 1 | $24 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $5 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- JARDIANCE$606
- XARELTO$237
- COREVALVE EVOLUT R$162
- CAMZYOS$125
- FARXIGA$124
- Shockwave IVL System with the Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter$124
- CARDIOMEMS$123
- Assure WCD$109
- AMPLATZER AMULET$107
- Wegovy$102
How this compares
$12,074 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 281 cardiovascular disease providers in Louisiana.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 1,024 | $1,057,289 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 250 | $292,266 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 166 | $152,245 |
| Repatha SureclickEvolocumab | 163 | $117,850 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 77 | $89,352 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 58 | $84,848 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 98 | $60,043 |
| NexlizetBempedoic Acid/Ezetimibe | 60 | $55,445 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 2,354 | $24,719 |
| NexletolBempedoic Acid | 29 | $20,917 |
| Valsartan | 1,064 | $18,040 |
| Ranolazine ErRanolazine | 245 | $16,493 |
| Repatha SyringeEvolocumab | 12 | $13,663 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 2,262 | $13,232 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 1,527 | $13,048 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $1,073 | $1,057,2891,024 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $1,456 | $292,266250 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat | $1,348 | $158,949179 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta | $914 | $98,23189 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $1,274 | $84,84858 claims |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Nexlizet, Nexletol | $605 | $76,36289 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 281 cardiovascular disease providers in Louisiana.
Other cardiovascular disease in Raceland
- Ghiath MikdadiHammond$5.7M
- Marc BernsteinSlidell$2.1M
- Anil ChhabraShreveport$1.9M
- Dale PresserCovington$1.7M
- William EavesShreveport$1.6M
- Assad MouhaffelWest Monroe$1.4M
- Wenwu ZhangShreveport$1.1M
- William SmithRuston$694K
- Imran ChaudryMonroe$371K
- Keith FerdinandNew Orleans$335K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.