Luke Williams, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Lake Charles, LANPI 1659347854
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 925 payments — averaging $17.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$5K
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Sanofi$1K
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$1K
- CSL Behring$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$871
- plus $4K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$16,27799%
- Education$1651%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 302 | $4,555 |
| AstraZeneca | 178 | $3,369 |
| Sanofi | 63 | $1,344 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 64 | $1,132 |
| CSL Behring | 50 | $1,073 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 35 | $871 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 56 | $844 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 32 | $573 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 19 | $339 |
| Philips North America LLC | 26 | $318 |
| Viatris Specialty LLC | 15 | $264 |
| Amgen | 12 | $237 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 12 | $186 |
| Bayer | 11 | $184 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 7 | $167 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 8 | $161 |
| Advanced Respiratory, Inc | 7 | $127 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $126 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $109 |
| Verona Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $106 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $78 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $57 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Merck | 2 | $35 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $30 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Gilead | 2 | $26 |
| Biomerieux Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
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.
- FASENRA$250
- Da Vinci Surgical System$126
How this compares
$16,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 189 pulmonary disease 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 416 | $398,565 |
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 27 | $371,356 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 45 | $215,077 |
| Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | 93 | $78,834 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 83 | $46,191 |
| NucalaMepolizumab | 12 | $45,149 |
| Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | 43 | $43,504 |
| SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | 61 | $23,153 |
| Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide | 18 | $10,152 |
| Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | 39 | $8,330 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 177 | $7,914 |
| Theophylline ErTheophylline Anhydrous | 59 | $6,488 |
| Varenicline Tartrate | 24 | $5,336 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 402 | $4,892 |
| Roflumilast | 54 | $4,700 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Nucala, Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta | $4,555 | $497,373536 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Stiolto Respimat, Spiriva Respimat | $573 | $425,01388 claims |
| AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort | $3,369 | $101,987154 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 189 pulmonary disease providers in Louisiana.
Other pulmonary disease in Lake Charles
- Gary KohlerLake Charles$21K
- Robert BroussardLake Charles$15K
- Clifford CourvilleLake Charles$15K
- Tashfeen MahmoodLake Charles$14K
- David GreenShreveport$2M
- Joseph LaskyNew Orleans$1.9M
- Leonardo SeoaneNew Orleans$1.6M
- Ross KlingsbergNew Orleans$1.2M
- Juzar AliNew Orleans$775K
- Hollis O NealBaton Rouge$682K
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.