Shelly Ludwig
Freehold, NJNPI 1801860937
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 132 payments — averaging $17.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$495
- Johnson & Johnson$356
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$212
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$180
- Bristol Myers Squibb$171
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$130
- plus $755 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,23097%
- Education$693%
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(2 entities) | 37 | $495 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 14 | $356 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $212 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 11 | $180 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 14 | $171 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 9 | $130 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $118 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $114 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $110 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $91 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $79 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $71 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Sanofi | 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.
- LINX Reflux Management System$122
- STELARA$118
- ManoScan$109
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.