Richard Zweig
Neurology · Shreveport, LANPI 1033135819
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 300 payments — averaging $13.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$701
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$697
- Amgen$391
- AbbVie$346
- Sanofi$302
- Biogen$221
- plus $1K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$982%
- Food & beverage$3,92696%
- Education$682%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 46 | $701 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 84 | $697 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 26 | $391 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 34 | $346 |
| Sanofi | 16 | $302 |
| Biogen | 15 | $221 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 12 | $209 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 14 | $183 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 19 | $138 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $124 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Acorda Therapeutics, Inc | 5 | $98 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Greenwich Biosciences, Inc. | 4 | $64 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| GE HealthCare | 2 | $40 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $39 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$4,092 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 225 neurology providers in Louisiana.
Other neurology in Shreveport
- Meghan HarrisShreveport$698K
- Erik BurtonShreveport$192K
- Ernest LittleShreveport$52K
- Chaitanya AmrutkarShreveport$17K
- Suresh KumarShreveport$16K
- Debra DavisShreveport$16K
- Jenny GuerreShreveport$15K
- Gurleen SikandShreveport$14K
- Ariel Antezana AntezanaAlexandria$2.5M
- Jon OlsonBaton Rouge$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.