Susan Smith, APRN
Nurse Practitioner · Ponchatoula, LANPI 1154441251
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.2% of the total across 400 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 27.3% of the total. Among nurse practitioner clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 400 payments — averaging $21.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Pfizer$804
- Amgen$741
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$728
- LEO Pharma Inc.$434
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$7,75792%
- Education$6578%
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 | 143 | $2,296 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 24 | $1,027 |
| Pfizer | 53 | $804 |
| Amgen | 27 | $741 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 33 | $728 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 16 | $434 |
| UCB, Inc. | 20 | $367 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $361 |
| Sanofi | 15 | $283 |
| Incyte Corporation | 7 | $247 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $185 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 8 | $146 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $139 |
| Novartis | 7 | $124 |
| Gilead | 1 | $122 |
| Almirall LLC | 6 | $120 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| LNHC, Inc | 2 | $48 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $47 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Organon | 3 | $35 |
| Botanix SB Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$8,415 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 969 nurse practitioner 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Skyrizi PenRisankizumab-Rzaa | 23 | $504,646 |
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 74 | $275,800 |
| Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab | 12 | $88,241 |
| Humira PenAdalimumab | 12 | $80,852 |
| Dupixent SyringeDupilumab | 15 | $55,270 |
| Ketoconazole | 483 | $10,696 |
| Metronidazole | 106 | $5,723 |
| Clobetasol Propionate | 143 | $4,740 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 113 | $3,602 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 135 | $3,172 |
| Calcipotriene | 23 | $3,083 |
| Tretinoin | 32 | $2,725 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 191 | $1,898 |
| Ciclopirox | 27 | $1,652 |
| Fluorouracil | 23 | $1,454 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Ponchatoula
- Karen DeshotelLafayette$264K
- Christopher ManuelKaplan$145K
- Tammy BennettShreveport$99K
- Jessica BordelonHammond$78K
- Matt LandryLafayette$50K
- Cynthia CobbLafayette$48K
- Ellen GentileWest Monroe$31K
- Reghan LittlepageAlexandria$24K
- April WoodrowOpelousas$24K
- Amanda EstapaHammond$21K
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.