Has Artemus Flagg, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,436 in general payments to Artemus Flagg, MD across 70 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 Artemus Flagg, 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 Artemus Flagg, 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.

Artemus Flagg, MD

Pain Medicine · Slidell, LANPI 1427161157

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.5%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spinal Simplicity, LLC at 24.4% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for pain medicine clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $3,650.

$3,436in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 70 payments — averaging $49.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spinal Simplicity, LLC$838
Curonix LLC$824
Protega Pharmaceutials Inc$600
Nevro Corp.$268
Boston Scientific$155
Medtronic$100
plus $651 from 20 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$60017%
Travel & lodging$1,30638%
Food & beverage$1,53045%

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
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	8	$838
Curonix LLC	6	$824
Protega Pharmaceutials Inc	1	$600
Nevro Corp.	14	$268
Boston Scientific	4	$155
Medtronic(2 entities)	6	$100
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$91
Abbott	4	$82
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$70
Nalu Medical, Inc.	5	$67
Stratus Medical, LLC	1	$60
Virtus Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$37
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$32
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$21
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$19
Bioventus LLC	1	$19
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Valinor Pharma, LLC	1	$18
Amgen	1	$18
Convatec Inc.	1	$17
Pfizer	1	$16
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$14
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	1	$13
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	1	$13
AbbVie	1	$13
Stimwave Technologies Incorporated	1	$12

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

$3,436 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 97 pain medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$199,256

Medicare patients

203

Services billed

3,045

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	1,575	$27,607
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	1,487	$15,915
Lidocaine	151	$10,896
Gabapentin	677	$5,063
ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf	13	$3,813
Tizanidine Hcl	859	$3,508
Pregabalin	296	$3,063
Diclofenac Sodium	124	$2,214
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	319	$1,847
Oxycodone Hcl	113	$1,527
Ibuprofen	319	$1,525
Naproxen	394	$1,496
Methocarbamol	240	$1,320
Hydromorphone Hcl	77	$982
Tramadol Hcl	203	$963

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.