Rama Kongara
Psychiatry · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1881867448
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 206 payments — averaging $14.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$713
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$670
- Lundbeck LLC$219
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$209
- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$185
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$182
- plus $770 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,81996%
- Education$1294%
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.
How this compares
$2,948 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 474 psychiatry providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Fluphenazine Hcl | 23 | $606 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other psychiatry in Baton Rouge
- Larry WarnerBaton Rouge$495K
- Abdul KhanBaton Rouge$156K
- Donna FargasonBaton Rouge$11K
- Aniedi UdofaBaton Rouge$9K
- Sudheera RachamalluBaton Rouge$7K
- Jason BoudreauxBaton Rouge$5K
- Kashinath YadalamLake Charles$3.8M
- Guy BrannonShreveport$1.4M
- Patrick HayesLake Charles$853K
- Maria CruseThibodaux$522K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.