Rebecca Hull, AGNP-C

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 Baton Rouge General Medical Center

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 59 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Ubaid Riaz Abbasi, MD Family Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Drake Eric Bellanger, MD Surgery Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Karalyn Rose Irene Bentley, MD Surgery Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Andrew Gregg Bishop Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician · Lexington, KY
• Hannah Elizabeth Gaspard, PA Physician Assistant · Baton Rouge, LA
• Mrs. Ashley Thornton Hernandez, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Baton Rouge, LA
• Trista Kramer, PA-C Physician Assistant · Baton Rouge, LA
• Anna Marceline Mayeaux, PA Physician Assistant · Baton Rouge, LA
• Niraja Bhrugushastri Patel, NP Nurse Practitioner · New Orleans, LA
• Amber Robins, MD Family Medicine Physician · Batavia, NY
• Dr. Sean Edward Shannon, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. James Roger Waddill, MD Family Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA