Sharifa Baker, MD
Family Medicine · Alexandria, LANPI 1811979073
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 202 payments — averaging $13.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$345
- Novo Nordisk$317
- AbbVie$270
- AstraZeneca$205
- Pfizer$190
- Boehringer Ingelheim$170
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,679100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 24 | $345 |
| Novo Nordisk | 24 | $317 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $270 |
| AstraZeneca | 9 | $205 |
| Pfizer | 25 | $190 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $170 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $144 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $142 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $120 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 8 | $93 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 6 | $91 |
| Merck | 7 | $91 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $61 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $58 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $52 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $50 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $20 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $12 |
| Kvk-tech, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$2,687 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Louisiana.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 121 | $115,187 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 68 | $69,924 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 28 | $44,599 |
| Janumet XrSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 62 | $32,582 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 34 | $24,486 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 12 | $16,683 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 17 | $10,872 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 33 | $10,074 |
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $10,025 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 17 | $9,504 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 11 | $7,146 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 12 | $7,116 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 11 | $5,036 |
| SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium | 55 | $2,858 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 199 | $2,417 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $170 | $115,187121 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus | $317 | $114,52296 claims |
| MerckJanumet Xr, Januvia | $91 | $39,69874 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $58 | $24,48634 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $50 | $16,68312 claims |
| AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid | $270 | $12,36272 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta | $345 | $12,18222 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga | $205 | $10,87217 claims |
| PfizerEliquis | $190 | $10,02516 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other family medicine in Alexandria
- Michael ScrepetisAlexandria$27K
- Gregory BevelsAlexandria$24K
- Kenneth BrownAlexandria$17K
- Gregory BrianAlexandria$15K
- Clinton GuilloryMonroe$18.5M
- Jason MorrisLake Charles$18M
- Michael SeepLake Charles$9.1M
- William NaboursLake Charles$3M
- Ramon VargasKenner$2.1M
- Stephen JonesNew Orleans$513K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.