Margaret Ortiz
Acute Care · Louisville, KYNPI 1891329959
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 66 payments — averaging $19.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$302
- Philips North America LLC$138
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$116
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$63
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$62
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$62
- plus $516 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,260100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 14 | $302 |
| Philips North America LLC | 8 | $138 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 6 | $116 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $57 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 3 | $51 |
| Tricoast Surgical Solutions LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $41 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 2 | $38 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $32 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $27 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $18 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $16 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,260 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 319 acute care providers in Kentucky.
Other acute care in Louisville
- Jayla GreeneLouisville$5K
- Katherine WittmerLouisville$5K
- Sarah SmithLouisville$4K
- Charlene SandersLouisville$4K
- Adam CumminsLouisville$3K
- Kimberly MeyerLouisville$3K
- Nidhi MoreLouisville$3K
- Brian GackenbachLouisville$2K
- Jennifer AustinLouisville$2K
- Donnell ProctorLouisville$2K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.