Andrew Meyers, DO
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Monroe, LANPI 1851955520
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.0%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.6%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,366, more than ten times the $150 reported in 2021. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $12,239.
Across 93 payments — averaging $95.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Highridge Medical LLC$2K
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$2K
- Arthrex$1K
- Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc.$759
- Stryker$626
- Clariance, Inc.$608
- plus $2K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,10546%
- Food & beverage$4,59852%
- Entertainment$1321%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highridge Medical LLC | 16 | $1,643 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $1,601 |
| Arthrex | 10 | $1,213 |
| Cornerstone Medical Associates, Inc. | 7 | $759 |
| Stryker | 15 | $626 |
| Clariance, Inc. | 11 | $608 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $596 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $587 |
| Choice Spine, LLC | 2 | $365 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $281 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $226 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $125 |
| Centinel Spine, LLC | 1 | $109 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $96 |
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.
- M6-C$1,474
- Vital$696
- MOBI-C PLUG & FIT US$606
- Blackhawk Cervical Spacer System$365
- Thunderbolt Minimally Invasive Pedicle Screw Systems$365
- VEO Lateral Interbody Fusion System$365
- Triton$365
- Stratofuse$365
- Full product portfolio$179
- PROFYLE$172
- Erisma-LP MIS$153
- Idys-LLIF 3DTi$153
- MaXcess$143
- PRESTIGE LP CERVICAL DISC SYSTEM$134
- QULIPTA$125
- AXSOS$110
- PRODISC C VIVO$109
How this compares
$8,835 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Louisiana.
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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.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Monroe
- Stanley CrawfordMonroe$16K
- Mathew CyriacNew Orleans$368K
- Joseph ZavatskyMetairie$205K
- Lon BaronneLafayette$190K
- Alexis WaguespackMetairie$63K
- Charles YuNew Orleans$52K
- Stephen HogeShreveport$48K
- William AccoustiNew Orleans$46K
- Amit BhandutiaNew Orleans$39K
- Milan ModyShreveport$33K
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.