Albert Bankston, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1235187246
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 102 payments — averaging $28.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$401
- Zimmer Biomet$352
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$261
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$252
- Boston Scientific$212
- Amgen$201
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,947100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 25 | $401 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $352 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 14 | $261 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 12 | $252 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $212 |
| Amgen | 13 | $201 |
| Bodycad USA Corp | 1 | $173 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $170 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $166 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $122 |
| Biorez, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Paragon 28, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $89 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $32 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Fine Osteotomy$173
- Irrisept$170
- BioBrace 23mm$120
- BioBrace 5mm$120
- Fluid Systems$119
- AccuFill$118
- Comprehensive Primary Stem$115
- Apligraf$110
How this compares
$2,947 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 291 | $6,265 |
| Gabapentin | 291 | $1,329 |
| Meloxicam | 257 | $885 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 25 | $559 |
| Indomethacin ErIndomethacin | 14 | $437 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 175 | $426 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 109 | $412 |
| Pregabalin | 16 | $355 |
| Methylprednisolone | 57 | $310 |
| Naproxen | 30 | $240 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 38 | $196 |
| Cephalexin | 14 | $61 |
| Cefadroxil | 12 | $57 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $29 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Baton Rouge
- Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3.1M
- Jorge IsazaBaton Rouge$1.2M
- Kevin McCarthyBaton Rouge$714K
- Robert EastonBaton Rouge$394K
- Ricardo RodriguezBaton Rouge$262K
- Wame WaggenspackBaton Rouge$82K
- Shaun AccardoBaton Rouge$52K
- Kevin RicheBaton Rouge$33K
- William ShermanBaton Rouge$29K
- David FerachiBaton Rouge$16K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.