Magdalena Budziakowska
Rheumatology · Metairie, LANPI 1609166313
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 234 payments — averaging $18.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$953
- Amgen$816
- Pfizer$349
- Novartis$305
- Lilly USA, LLC$205
- Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA$180
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,27099%
- Education$261%
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 | 47 | $953 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 43 | $816 |
| Pfizer | 23 | $349 |
| Novartis | 15 | $305 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $205 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 8 | $180 |
| UCB, Inc. | 10 | $162 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $158 |
| GSK | 9 | $141 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $136 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $130 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 7 | $124 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $124 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 5 | $93 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $88 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 4 | $68 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $64 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $58 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$4,296 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 88 rheumatology providers in Louisiana.
Other rheumatology in Metairie
- Jerry PoundsMetairie$252K
- Madelaine FeldmanMetairie$49K
- Louis PerdueMetairie$17K
- Austin FraserMetairie$12K
- Stephen LindseyBaton Rouge$3.6M
- Enrique MendezLake Charles$1.9M
- Aaron BroadwellShreveport$1.7M
- Saravanan ThiagarajanBaton Rouge$1.2M
- Jyothi MallepalliMonroe$998K
- Lesley SaketkooNew Orleans$294K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.