Mrs. Erica Powell Watson, PMHNP-BC

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Colleagues at East Carroll Parish Hospital

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 38 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Carla C Costello, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Lake Providence, LA
• Savannah Fortenberry, APRN, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Lake Providence, LA
• Stacey Hackler, APRN, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Lake Providence, LA
• Amy Garrett Hale, RN, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Lake Providence, LA
• Terry Glen Jordan, MS, LPC Professional Counselor · Lake Providence, LA
• Aaron Scott Klepper, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Monroe, LA
• Dr. Kay B Kovac Family Medicine Physician · Lake Providence, LA
• Dana Easterling Pippin, DO Family Medicine Physician · Lake Providence, LA
• Kelly Catherine Ratliff, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Lake Providence, LA
• Dr. Huey August Seyfarth Jr., MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Justin W. Seymour, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Llewellyn Simon, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Lake Providence, LA