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

Louis Telesford

Cardiovascular Disease Hamden, CT Medical Doctor

NPI 1023125523 CMS profile 91537

2337 Whitney Ave, Hamden, CT 06518

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General payments

$33,739

1,711 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, Louis Telesford of Hamden, CT is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $33,739 across 1,711 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 92nd percentile of Cardiovascular Disease 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 $4,364 221
2024 General $4,501 207
2023 General $5,613 246
2022 General $5,914 285
2021 General $4,777 278
2020 General $3,971 229
2019 General $4,599 245

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Louis Telesford
  • Cardiovascular Disease median
  • Middle half of Cardiovascular Disease
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Louis Telesford were reported at $4,364. Among 16,617 Cardiovascular Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $432 and the middle half received between $132 and $1,252.

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Year Louis Telesford Cardiovascular Disease median Middle half National median
2019 $4,599 $450 $127–$1,392 $163
2020 $3,971 $242 $77–$751 $114
2021 $4,777 $335 $101–$1,037 $132
2022 $5,914 $395 $121–$1,211 $149
2023 $5,613 $443 $136–$1,283 $160
2024 $4,501 $450 $136–$1,323 $164
2025 $4,364 $432 $132–$1,252 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $5,800 279 payments
  2. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $5,382 180 payments
  3. AbbVie, Inc. $5,291 336 payments
  4. Novo Nordisk Inc $2,768 155 payments
  5. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $1,324 74 payments
  6. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $1,099 81 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $879 52 payments
  8. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $576 30 payments
  9. Lilly USA, LLC $505 23 payments
  10. Allergan Inc. $478 39 payments
  11. Other $9,639 462 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $33,065 1,695 payments
  2. Education $674 16 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. TRELEGY ELLIPTA $2,662 119 payments
  2. VRAYLAR $2,012 134 payments
  3. FASENRA $1,803 40 payments
  4. FARXIGA $1,792 58 payments
  5. BREZTRI $1,767 50 payments
  6. Ozempic $1,761 118 payments
  7. UBRELVY $1,566 78 payments
  8. NUCALA $1,524 93 payments
  9. RYBELSUS $1,132 85 payments
  10. DUPIXENT $973 52 payments
  11. Other $22,843 1,274 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 · 86 drugs

Part D claims

3,537

Median for Internal Medicine: 777

Drug cost

$896,742

Median for Internal Medicine: $73,373

Branded share of claims

28.9%

Median for Internal Medicine: 19.3%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 93 $180,145
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 152 $173,689
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 82 $92,176
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 48 $71,862
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 49 $69,847
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 42 $68,364
Entresto Sacubitril/Valsartan Brand 21 $33,140
Janumet Xr Sitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl Brand 22 $31,171
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 26 $31,015
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 16 $27,514

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 86 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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 38 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
VRAYLAR
$585 — —
BREZTRI
$411 — —
NUCALA
$370 — —
FARXIGA
$310 48 —
TRELEGY ELLIPTA
$291 82 —

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

1,711 reported

Every payment, record by record

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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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