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

William Sanders

Family Medicine Ruston, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1093921066 CMS profile 50040

1200 S Farmerville St, Ruston, LA 71270

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General payments

$16,379

1,011 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, William Sanders of Ruston, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $16,379 across 1,011 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 98th percentile of Family 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 $3,137 178
2024 General $3,238 190
2023 General $3,167 196
2022 General $2,222 134
2021 General $1,831 124
2020 General $1,173 74
2019 General $1,611 115

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • William Sanders
  • Family Medicine median
  • Middle half of Family Medicine
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to William Sanders were reported at $3,137. Among 56,786 Family Medicine profiles paid that year, the median was $155 and the middle half received between $45 and $549.

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Year William Sanders Family Medicine median Middle half National median
2019 $1,611 $150 $41–$543 $163
2020 $1,173 $120 $32–$415 $114
2021 $1,831 $137 $35–$551 $132
2022 $2,222 $137 $37–$512 $149
2023 $3,167 $149 $42–$545 $160
2024 $3,238 $156 $44–$560 $164
2025 $3,137 $155 $45–$549 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $1,899 86 payments
  2. Novo Nordisk Inc $1,412 97 payments
  3. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $1,278 82 payments
  4. Lilly USA, LLC $1,197 90 payments
  5. Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc. $918 53 payments
  6. Pfizer Inc. $847 58 payments
  7. Amgen Inc. $758 49 payments
  8. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $744 47 payments
  9. ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc $628 56 payments
  10. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $583 36 payments
  11. Other $6,115 357 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $16,348 1,007 payments
  2. Education $30 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. FARXIGA $1,656 74 payments
  2. Ozempic $1,185 78 payments
  3. RYBELSUS $1,065 69 payments
  4. TRINTELLIX $1,015 62 payments
  5. Kerendia $918 53 payments
  6. NUPLAZID $628 56 payments
  7. NURTEC ODT $618 42 payments
  8. JARDIANCE Diabetes $559 45 payments
  9. JARDIANCE Diabetes $557 37 payments
  10. MOUNJARO $472 30 payments
  11. Other $12,882 806 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 · 180 drugs

Part D claims

15,699

Median for Family Practice: 1,826

Drug cost

$1,412,098

Median for Family Practice: $120,094

Branded share of claims

19.9%

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
Farxiga Dapagliflozin Propanediol Brand 223 $173,918
Mounjaro Tirzepatide Brand 156 $169,318
Ozempic Semaglutide Brand 140 $140,451
Trulicity Dulaglutide Brand 143 $139,565
Eliquis Apixaban Brand 134 $97,606
Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter Brand 104 $84,694
Jardiance Empagliflozin Brand 101 $83,557
Kerendia Finerenone Brand 44 $43,488
Rybelsus Semaglutide Brand 25 $37,784
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 38 $35,935

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 180 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 · 47 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$151,383

Of which drugs: $13,795

Medicare patients

596

Average age 76

Services billed

3,129

342 women, 254 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 41%
Diabetes 28%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Chronic kidney disease 20%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Depression 14%
Osteoporosis 14%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg J0702 Office 32 132 $709

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 46 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
NUPLAZID
$268 — —
TRINTELLIX
$247 — —
REXULTI
$208 — —
VOQUEZNA
$181 — —
RYBELSUS
$141 25 —

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

1,011 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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