Barton Wax, MD
Hand Surgery · Houma, LANPI 1912197575
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,362 of the $2,969 with a category attached, or 79.6%. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,094 and has fallen 63.9% since, to $395 in 2025.
Across 103 payments — averaging $28.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ALON Medical Technology$607
- Stryker$412
- Johnson & Johnson$351
- Amgen$241
- Radius Health, Inc.$155
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$121
- plus $1K from 29 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,36280%
- Education$60720%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $607 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 8 | $412 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $351 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 21 | $241 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 9 | $155 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 7 | $119 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $115 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $101 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 5 | $86 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $61 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $52 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $47 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $44 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Orthogenrx Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $32 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $28 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $16 |
| BREG, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 2 | $14 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $14 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Heraeus Medical, LLC. | 2 | $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
$2,969 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 29 hand 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 | 390 | $4,747 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 197 | $4,000 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 115 | $946 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 130 | $534 |
| Ibuprofen | 109 | $501 |
| Methylprednisolone | 70 | $463 |
| Meloxicam | 84 | $226 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $103 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Houma
- Leslie SiscoNew Orleans$169K
- Mark DodsonAlexandria$28K
- Ryan BlissBaton Rouge$11K
- Diego MirandaBossier City$10K
- Nicholas PappasMetairie$9K
- Cameron BestMonroe$8K
- Brandon DonnellyMetairie$8K
- Sagar ShahLafayette$7K
- Brent McCartyCovington$7K
- Ross DunbarNew Orleans$6K
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.