Has Andrew Werner, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,028 in general payments to Andrew Werner, MD across 138 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Andrew Werner, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Andrew Werner, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Andrew Werner, MD

Colon & Rectal Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1003859141

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $16,359 of the $22,028 with a category attached, or 74.3%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 87.1% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $18,179 and has fallen 96.8% since, to $578 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$22,028in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 138 payments — averaging $159.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$19K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$525
Kerecis Limited$407
Sanara Medtech Inc.$309
AbbVie$148
plus $383 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,8328%
Food & beverage$3,83717%
Education$16,35974%

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	49	$19,181
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	38	$1,074
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	24	$525
Kerecis Limited	4	$407
Sanara Medtech Inc.	3	$309
AbbVie	6	$148
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$109
Conmed Corporation	1	$38
Olympus America Inc.	1	$34
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	1	$33
Boston Scientific	2	$31
GSK	2	$30
Medtronic	1	$21
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$20
Davol Inc.	1	$20
Stryker	1	$18
Acera Surgical, Inc.	1	$15
Merck	1	$15

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.

DAVINCI XI$16,000
Da Vinci Surgical System$2,068
Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$802
Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$267
Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$267
CellerateRx$261
INTEGRA$218
OMNIGRAFT$109
SURGIMEND$109
INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$109

How this compares

$22,028 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 39 colon & rectal surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$130,251

Medicare patients

361

Services billed

648

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
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates	70	$4,750
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac	16	$2,727
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg	29	$662
Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	15	$254
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	14	$200
Neomycin Sulfate	35	$132
Metronidazole	40	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other colon & rectal surgery in Shreveport

Brielle HebertShreveport$22K
Michael StrattonShreveport$1K
William GrimesShreveport$205
Philip ColeShreveport$71
Jennifer ParuchNew Orleans$63K
Charles WhitlowNew Orleans$22K
Jennifer SilinskyMetairie$21K
Elyse Bevier-RawlsNew Orleans$18K
Louis BarfieldBaton Rouge$17K
Sarah BakerMarrero$17K

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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.

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