Has Bethany Mensink, DO received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,153 in general payments to Bethany Mensink, DO across 32 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 Bethany Mensink, DO 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 Bethany Mensink, DO 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.

Bethany Mensink, DO

Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1497106637

Payments from drug & device makers

$7,153in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $223.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$5K
Medtronic$1K
TELA Bio, Inc.$215
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$164
Davol Inc.$131
Johnson & Johnson$109
plus $36 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$350%
Travel & lodging$2,21231%
Food & beverage$90613%
Education$4,00056%

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	8	$5,358
Medtronic	12	$1,141
TELA Bio, Inc.	4	$215
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$164
Davol Inc.	2	$131
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	2	$109
Acell, Inc.	2	$36

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

$7,153 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 381 surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$27,995

Medicare patients

Services billed

158

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
Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl	33	$493
Esomeprazole Magnesium	11	$215
Pantoprazole Sodium	17	$153
Methocarbamol	23	$123
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	19	$73
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	14	$43
Ibuprofen	11	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$232K
Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
Joseph GriffinBaton Rouge$100K
Karalyn BentleyBaton Rouge$42K
Asif TalukderBaton Rouge$42K
Mohammad Al EfishatBaton Rouge$22K
Danielle CobbBaton Rouge$18K

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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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