Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Halina Polek- Nowakowska

Gastroenterology Gonzales, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1861598658 CMS profile 356795

14076 Highway 44, Gonzales, LA 70737

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General payments

$18,041

868 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Halina Polek- Nowakowska of Gonzales, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $18,041 across 868 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 88th percentile of Gastroenterology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,718 126
2024 General $2,990 153
2023 General $3,172 147
2022 General $3,373 145
2021 General $2,147 104
2020 General $1,486 87
2019 General $2,154 106

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Halina Polek- Nowakowska
  • Gastroenterology median
  • Middle half of Gastroenterology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Halina Polek- Nowakowska were reported at $2,718. Among 13,050 Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $639 and the middle half received between $167 and $1,700.

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Year Halina Polek- Nowakowska Gastroenterology median Middle half National median
2019 $2,154 $417 $126–$1,100 $163
2020 $1,486 $224 $74–$624 $114
2021 $2,147 $352 $106–$1,054 $132
2022 $3,373 $448 $129–$1,270 $149
2023 $3,172 $533 $150–$1,390 $160
2024 $2,990 $605 $160–$1,606 $164
2025 $2,718 $639 $167–$1,700 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $4,605 236 payments
  2. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $1,871 92 payments
  3. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $1,147 78 payments
  4. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $1,112 61 payments
  5. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals $1,015 22 payments
  6. RedHill Biopharma Inc. $984 50 payments
  7. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc $730 46 payments
  8. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $698 43 payments
  9. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $570 7 payments
  10. Genzyme Corporation $554 20 payments
  11. Other $4,756 213 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $17,987 864 payments
  2. Education $54 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. RINVOQ $1,940 99 payments
  2. LINZESS Gastroenterology $1,665 90 payments
  3. Talicia $951 48 payments
  4. HUMIRA $827 42 payments
  5. Linzess Gi $795 49 payments
  6. SKYRIZI $794 58 payments
  7. ENTYVIO $787 40 payments
  8. REZDIFFRA $781 16 payments
  9. TRULANCE $706 46 payments
  10. CREON $642 31 payments
  11. Other $10,289 490 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 43 drugs

Part D claims

3,715

Median for Gastroenterology: 569

Drug cost

$1,212,081

Median for Gastroenterology: $104,976

Branded share of claims

34%

Median for Gastroenterology: 31.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 371 $352,862
Sucraid Sacrosidase Brand 14 $198,201
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 28 $188,596
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 18 $121,481
Ibsrela Tenapanor Hcl Brand 35 $72,655
Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate Brand 103 $69,554
Creon Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 33 $45,217
Xifaxan Rifaximin Brand 14 $45,005
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag Sulf Sodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates Brand 427 $29,201
Sutab Sod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf Brand 65 $10,693

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 43 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 14,294 Part D prescribers listed as Gastroenterology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 23 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$66,718

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

283

Average age 73

Services billed

700

165 women, 118 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 45%
Diabetes 34%
Ischemic heart disease 30%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
Depression 24%
Heart failure 18%
Atrial fibrillation 16%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 31 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ENTYVIO
$332 — —
RINVOQ
$266 18 —
SKYRIZI
$245 — —
LINZESS
$186 371 —
IBSRELA
$186 35 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

868 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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