Melissa Kramer
Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LANPI 1730671785
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 87 payments — averaging $42.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$403
- AstraZeneca$386
- Gilead$365
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$352
- Novo Nordisk$329
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$273
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,657100%
- Education$70%
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 | 6 | $403 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $386 |
| Gilead | 5 | $365 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $352 |
| Novo Nordisk | 10 | $329 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $273 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $179 |
| Abbott | 2 | $171 |
| Bayer | 4 | $154 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $114 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $104 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $84 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $72 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $70 |
| Braeburn Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Indivior Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$3,664 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 969 nurse practitioner providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl | 77 | $11,473 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Lake Charles
- Lacey VasilakisLake Charles$17K
- Chad HodgeLake Charles$11K
- Karen DeshotelLafayette$264K
- Christopher ManuelKaplan$145K
- Tammy BennettShreveport$99K
- Jessica BordelonHammond$78K
- Teri DugganBossier City$67K
- Matt LandryLafayette$50K
- Cynthia CobbLafayette$48K
- Ellen GentileWest Monroe$31K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.