Krista Balius
Family · Lafayette, LANPI 1881470391
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 66 payments — averaging $19.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$559
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$112
- Bayer$110
- Noven Therapeutics, LLC$86
- Neos Therapeutics, LP$60
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$57
- plus $307 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,291100%
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 | 32 | $559 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $112 |
| Bayer | 1 | $110 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 4 | $86 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 4 | $60 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 3 | $57 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $49 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 2 | $30 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $17 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| GSK | 1 | $14 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $13 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 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.
- Kerendia$110
How this compares
$1,291 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,610 family providers in Louisiana.
Other family in Lafayette
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- Jorge MenaLafayette$27K
- Amanda KeysLafayette$27K
- Shanna JohnsonLafayette$22K
- Layne LemaireLafayette$13K
- Rebecca EzellSlidell$268K
- Erin PierceNew Orleans$261K
- Tavell KindallNew Orleans$194K
- Ashlea HillRuston$169K
- Brittany MillerVille Platte$158K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.