Luis Espinoza
Rheumatology · New Orleans, LANPI 1881616688
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,700 of the $11,437 with a category attached, or 67.3%. Pfizer accounts for 84.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $11,167 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $17 in 2024.
Across 140 payments — averaging $81.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$10K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$364
- GSK$312
- AbbVie$239
- Novartis$221
- UCB, Inc.$129
- plus $470 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,70067%
- Travel & lodging$9508%
- Food & beverage$2,78724%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer(2 entities) | 33 | $9,702 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 26 | $364 |
| GSK | 14 | $312 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $239 |
| Novartis | 13 | $221 |
| UCB, Inc. | 13 | $129 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 7 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $117 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $50 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $40 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $18 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $15 |
| Qiagen, 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.
How this compares
$11,437 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 88 rheumatology providers in Louisiana.
Other rheumatology in New Orleans
- Lesley SaketkooNew Orleans$97K
- Evangeline ScopelitisNew Orleans$96K
- William DavisNew Orleans$37K
- Barrett FordNew Orleans$16K
- Mansour AlghamdiNew Orleans$9K
- Nirupa PatelNew Orleans$7K
- Laura RiversNew Orleans$6K
- Shreya MadhavaramNew Orleans$5K
- Aaron BroadwellShreveport$1.6M
- Ladislas LazaroLafayette$265K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.