Amanda Ellington, MD
Surgery · Lake Charles, LANPI 1023219110
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (44.9%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 57.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,139 and has fallen 97.6% since, to $218 in 2025.
Across 88 payments — averaging $177.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Globus Medical$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$702
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$299
- Sientra, Inc.$216
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$148
- plus $977 from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,13433%
- Food & beverage$3,44622%
- Education$7,00045%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 19 | $8,983 |
| Globus Medical | 10 | $4,254 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $702 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $299 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 2 | $216 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $103 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $91 |
| Molli Surgical (US) Inc | 2 | $85 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $72 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $57 |
| Merck | 2 | $41 |
| Veracyte, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $36 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $34 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $31 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| BD | 1 | $25 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $22 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merit Medical Systems Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Owens & Minor | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$15,580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 381 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Letrozole | 18 | $429 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 99 | $216 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 11 | $58 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 15 | $26 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $12 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lake Charles
- Matias NautsLake Charles$112K
- Darin DoumiteLake Charles$20K
- Justin RuddLake Charles$17K
- Richard ShimerLake Charles$14K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Joseph BuellNew Orleans$186K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
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.