Lauren Mears
Physician Assistant · Kenner, LANPI 1912661406
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 83 payments — averaging $21.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$302
- Boston Scientific$205
- AbbVie$203
- Nevro Corp.$197
- Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$163
- Medtronic$158
- plus $536 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,764100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 26 | $302 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $205 |
| AbbVie | 14 | $203 |
| Nevro Corp. | 6 | $197 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $163 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $158 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $84 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $49 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $41 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$1,764 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,246 physician assistant providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Memantine Hcl | 26 | $440 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 19 | $97 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Kenner
- Oanh NguyenKenner$7K
- Shelly EsnardBaton Rouge$141K
- Jefferson OberleNew Orleans$66K
- Jennifer ScheuermannNew Orleans$56K
- Claire DarreJefferson$50K
- Elizabeth ClementNew Orleans$35K
- Mary Negrotto GuntherSlidell$29K
- Kristen HebertZachary$27K
- David GsellNew Orleans$26K
- Nakia BrooksNew Orleans$25K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.