Linda Stewart
Family Medicine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1578625844
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 154 payments — averaging $16.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$460
- Merck$376
- Novo Nordisk$215
- AstraZeneca$167
- Bayer$151
- Lilly USA, LLC$135
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,50099%
- Education$141%
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(2 entities) | 26 | $460 |
| Merck | 25 | $376 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $215 |
| AstraZeneca | 12 | $167 |
| Bayer | 8 | $151 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $135 |
| Amgen | 8 | $134 |
| Abbott | 6 | $119 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $91 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $88 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $81 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $77 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| GSK | 3 | $53 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $35 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $25 |
| Novartis | 1 | $21 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,514 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other family medicine in Baton Rouge
- Christine SmithBaton Rouge$185K
- Kevin DibenedettoBaton Rouge$80K
- Stan MaysBaton Rouge$15K
- Myles JaynesBaton Rouge$15K
- Yushen LeeBaton Rouge$14K
- Gerald BarberBaton Rouge$14K
- Vincent NguyenBaton Rouge$13K
- Clinton GuilloryMonroe$18.5M
- Jason MorrisLake Charles$18M
- Michael SeepLake Charles$9.1M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.