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

Rani Whitfield

Sports Medicine Baton Rouge, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1497768147 CMS profile 157902

429 East Airport Dr., Suite 4, Baton Rouge, LA 70806

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General payments

$4,900

250 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, Rani Whitfield of Baton Rouge, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,900 across 250 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 91st percentile of Sports 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 $440 19
2024 General $873 28
2023 General $635 27
2022 General $284 16
2021 General $966 55
2020 General $1,023 57
2019 General $678 48

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Rani Whitfield
  • Sports Medicine median
  • Middle half of Sports Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Rani Whitfield were reported at $440. Among 1,257 Sports Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $114 and the middle half received between $39 and $293.

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Year Rani Whitfield Sports Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $678 $119 $35–$362 $163
2020 $1,023 $77 $24–$275 $114
2021 $966 $104 $28–$340 $132
2022 $284 $94 $31–$272 $149
2023 $635 $91 $34–$271 $160
2024 $873 $126 $38–$294 $164
2025 $440 $114 $39–$293 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Merz North America, Inc. $781 13 payments
  2. Lilly USA, LLC $598 36 payments
  3. Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLC $522 34 payments
  4. Novo Nordisk Inc $518 31 payments
  5. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $388 25 payments
  6. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $366 21 payments
  7. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $355 20 payments
  8. Abbott Laboratories $234 11 payments
  9. Pfizer Inc. $180 9 payments
  10. AbbVie, Inc. $143 7 payments
  11. Other $814 43 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $4,870 249 payments
  2. Education $30 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Xeomin $781 13 payments
  2. STEGLATRO $388 25 payments
  3. JANUVIA $331 22 payments
  4. JARDIANCE Diabetes $313 18 payments
  5. TRULICITY $306 19 payments
  6. Ozempic $272 17 payments
  7. RYBELSUS $236 15 payments
  8. SOLIQUA 100/33 $233 14 payments
  9. JARDIANCE Diabetes $226 14 payments
  10. FreeStyle Libre 3 $200 9 payments
  11. Other $3,741 214 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 · 87 drugs

Part D claims

3,158

Median for Family Practice: 1,826

Drug cost

$226,899

Median for Family Practice: $120,094

Branded share of claims

23.6%

Median for Family Practice: 18.9%

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 58 $66,568
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 43 $47,658
Januvia Sitagliptin Phosphate Brand 44 $31,443
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 19 $15,019
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 11 $11,533
Janumet Sitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl Brand 12 $9,708
Xarelto Rivaroxaban Brand 14 $9,180
Albuterol Sulfate Hfa Albuterol Sulfate Brand 109 $3,977
Lantus Solostar Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog Brand 22 $3,927
Nebivolol Hcl Generic 27 $1,377

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 87 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 105,120 Part D prescribers listed as Family Practice; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 29 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$21,326

Of which drugs: $1,750

Medicare patients

74

Average age 70

Services billed

321

31 women, 43 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%
Diabetes 50%
Ischemic heart disease 39%
Arthritis 34%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Heart failure 18%
Cancer 16%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle 90662 Office 16 17 $1,351

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 16 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
Xeomin
  • MERZ NORTH AMERICA, INC. $443
$443 — —
VRAYLAR
  • AbbVie, Inc. $71
$71 — —
JARDIANCE
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $54
  • Lilly USA, LLC $8
$61 43 —
Wegovy
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $35
$35 — —
Ozempic
  • Novo Nordisk Inc $34
$34 58 —

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

250 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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