Rachael Kermis
Family Medicine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1265886303
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.8% of the total across 62 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $737 and has fallen 83.5% since, to $122 in 2025.
Across 62 payments — averaging $29.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$262
- Novo Nordisk$236
- AbbVie$198
- Bayer$175
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$150
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$130
- plus $702 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,79397%
- Gifts$593%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $262 |
| Novo Nordisk | 7 | $236 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $198 |
| Bayer | 2 | $175 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $150 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $130 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $122 |
| Gilead | 1 | $122 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $112 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $59 |
| Amgen | 3 | $55 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 3 | $43 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$1,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other family medicine in Baton Rouge
- Christine SmithBaton Rouge$185K
- Stan MaysBaton Rouge$15K
- Myles JaynesBaton Rouge$15K
- Yushen LeeBaton Rouge$14K
- Gerald BarberBaton Rouge$14K
- Vincent NguyenBaton Rouge$13K
- Thomas DansbyMonroe$169K
- Michael FlemingShreveport$165K
- Robert St AmantGonzales$156K
- William HathawaySpringhill$105K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.