Kerry Tynes, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Shreveport, LANPI 1538152426
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.7% of the total across 219 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,043 and has fallen 50.4% since, to $517 in 2025.
Across 219 payments — averaging $20.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Pfizer$425
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$407
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$356
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$229
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$213
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$341%
- Food & beverage$4,33999%
- Other$251%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 56 | $1,047 |
| Pfizer | 29 | $425 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 23 | $407 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 3 | $356 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 9 | $229 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 7 | $213 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 13 | $196 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 12 | $177 |
| Amgen | 2 | $143 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 9 | $136 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $110 |
| Bayer | 5 | $105 |
| Sage Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $84 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 3 | $82 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $68 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Lupin Inc. | 5 | $62 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Millicent US Inc | 3 | $57 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $54 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 3 | $43 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $35 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $25 |
| BD | 1 | $22 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $16 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- EVENITY$125
How this compares
$4,397 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 608 obstetrics & gynecology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 12 | $229 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Shreveport
- Catherine VanderloosShreveport$55K
- Joanna PooleShreveport$24K
- Ricky PaulShreveport$24K
- Erin GullattShreveport$11K
- James RobertsonShreveport$11K
- John HaynesShreveport$9K
- Kristy WaltmanShreveport$7K
- Veronica GillispieNew Orleans$117K
- Rachel Bezdekla Place$105K
- Earl PeeperNew Orleans$95K
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.