Brad Culotta
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1467655456
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $60,850 of the $81,548 with a category attached, or 74.6%. Stryker accounts for 85.3% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $26,660 and has fallen 91.9% since, to $2,146 in 2025. Among pediatric orthopaedic 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.
Across 156 payments — averaging $522.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$70K
- Orthopediatrics Corp.$4K
- Innovasis Inc$3K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$2K
- ALON Medical Technology$613
- Globus Medical$307
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60,85075%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1750%
- Travel & lodging$15,67419%
- Food & beverage$4,7606%
- Education$890%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 72 | $69,545 |
| Orthopediatrics Corp. | 7 | $3,978 |
| Innovasis Inc | 1 | $3,265 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 8 | $2,022 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 9 | $613 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 8 | $307 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $236 |
| Arthrex | 3 | $220 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $212 |
| Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc. | 6 | $173 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $120 |
| Wishbone Medical Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Zimvie Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $61 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 4 | $59 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $57 |
| Vericel Corporation | 2 | $42 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $11 |
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.
- AIRO$34,801
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$27,597
- MESA SPINAL SYSTEM$19,093
- MAKO$10,500
- SPINEMAP$2,250
- Other - Miscellaneous$1,061
- SERRATO$610
- MESA$567
- Invictus MIS$520
- INVICTUS OPEN$385
- MESA SMALL STATURE SPINAL SYSTEM$317
- DENALI SPINAL SYSTEM$170
- MESA RAIL$162
- Excelsius - GPS$131
- SurgX$125
- Xperience$125
- BlastX$125
How this compares
$81,548 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 20 pediatric orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.
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Other pediatric orthopaedic surgery in Baton Rouge
- John FaustBaton Rouge$13K
- Tina CreekmoreBaton Rouge$2K
- Sharon MayberryBaton Rouge$445
- Timothy SkalakNew Orleans$15K
- Ryan FarmerLafayette$8K
- James BennettNew Orleans$7K
- Brielle PlostNew Orleans$5K
- Michael HeffernanNew Orleans$4K
- Vinitha ShenavaNew Orleans$3K
- Sean WaldronNew Orleans$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.