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

Ken Ehrhardt

Interventional Pain Medicine Hammond, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1033571914 CMS profile 5694429

16070 Doctors Blvd, Hammond, LA 70403

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General payments

$22,203

229 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, Ken Ehrhardt of Hammond, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $22,203 across 229 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 87th percentile of Interventional Pain Medicine 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 $16,497 82
2024 General $936 47
2023 General $841 34
2022 General $1,325 28
2021 General $1,393 21
2020 General $984 14
2019 General $228 3

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Ken Ehrhardt
  • Interventional Pain Medicine median
  • Middle half of Interventional Pain Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Ken Ehrhardt were reported at $16,497. Among 1,891 Interventional Pain Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $657 and the middle half received between $184 and $1,753.

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Year Ken Ehrhardt Interventional Pain Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $228 $684 $216–$2,079 $163
2020 $984 $382 $122–$1,109 $114
2021 $1,393 $552 $167–$1,554 $132
2022 $1,325 $605 $187–$1,924 $149
2023 $841 $671 $195–$1,915 $160
2024 $936 $684 $206–$1,837 $164
2025 $16,497 $657 $184–$1,753 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $13,670 18 payments
  2. Boston Scientific Corporation $1,878 26 payments
  3. Spinal Simplicity, LLC $1,423 14 payments
  4. Globus Medical, Inc. $1,119 15 payments
  5. Nevro Corp. $654 17 payments
  6. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $629 35 payments
  7. BIOTRONIK NRO, Inc. $433 5 payments
  8. Medtronic, Inc. $207 8 payments
  9. Lilly USA, LLC $184 9 payments
  10. Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC $160 7 payments
  11. Other $1,847 75 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $12,610 7 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $7,498 209 payments
  3. Travel and Lodging $2,095 13 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. JOURNAVX $13,670 18 payments
  2. HA MINUTEMAN G3-R $1,423 14 payments
  3. Senza Spinal Cord Stimulator $1,114 14 payments
  4. WAVEWRITER ALPHA $600 7 payments
  5. BELBUCA $566 32 payments
  6. GENERAL - PAIN MANAGEMENT $485 5 payments
  7. Prospera $433 5 payments
  8. Omnia $323 5 payments
  9. SPECTRA WAVEWRITER $268 5 payments
  10. Senza Spinal Cord Stimulator $210 11 payments
  11. Other $3,953 158 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 · 22 drugs

Part D claims

4,987

Median for Anesthesiology: 322

Drug cost

$326,894

Median for Anesthesiology: $8,738

Branded share of claims

52.6%

Median for Anesthesiology: 25.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Belbuca Buprenorphine Hcl Brand 250 $210,794
Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen Brand 906 $34,839
Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen Brand 1,373 $25,196
Buprenorphine Generic 38 $13,922
Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate Brand 19 $7,671
Lidocaine Generic 86 $6,584
Pregabalin Generic 591 $5,969
Xtampza Er Oxycodone Myristate Brand 17 $5,816
Gabapentin Generic 476 $4,965
Baclofen Generic 299 $2,340

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 22 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 3,517 Part D prescribers listed as Anesthesiology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 35 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$95,095

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

153

Average age 71

Services billed

996

86 women, 67 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 75%
Ischemic heart disease 41%
Depression 41%
Diabetes 39%
COPD 28%
Heart failure 27%
Chronic kidney disease 27%

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 17 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
BELBUCA
  • Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. $222
$222 250 —
PROLATE
  • Forte Bio-Pharma LLC $72
$72 — —
LEVORPHANOL TARTRATE
  • Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC $65
$65 — —
Leqembi
  • Biogen, Inc. $24
  • Eisai Inc. $24
$48 — —
REXULTI
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $35
$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

229 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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