Stuart Blum
Cardiovascular Disease · Shreveport, LANPI 1073509535
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 138 payments — averaging $14.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$342
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$276
- Pfizer$264
- ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$168
- Amgen$155
- Johnson & Johnson$146
- plus $603 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,955100%
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 | 28 | $342 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 20 | $276 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $264 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 13 | $168 |
| Amgen | 9 | $155 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $146 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 11 | $144 |
| Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $101 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 6 | $81 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $41 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $34 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Preventice Services, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,955 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 281 cardiovascular disease providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Temazepam | 22 | $412 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cardiovascular disease in Shreveport
- Anil ChhabraShreveport$1.9M
- William EavesShreveport$1.6M
- Wenwu ZhangShreveport$1.1M
- Neeraj TandonShreveport$53K
- Basel KasabaliShreveport$30K
- Ralph BaucumShreveport$29K
- Tina FirouzbakhtShreveport$28K
- Phillip RozemanShreveport$15K
- Jagan BeedupalliShreveport$13K
- Ghiath MikdadiHammond$5.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.