Brandon Gaynor
Neurological Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1104068980
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,912 of the $6,993 with a category attached, or 84.5%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 39.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,130 and has fallen 59.5% since, to $864 in 2025.
Across 119 payments — averaging $58.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Boston Scientific$696
- Carlsmed, Inc.$343
- Stryker$320
- Abbott$267
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,08115%
- Food & beverage$5,91285%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 28 | $2,770 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 22 | $1,006 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $696 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 4 | $343 |
| Stryker | 10 | $320 |
| Abbott | 4 | $267 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 8 | $257 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $255 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 5 | $190 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $185 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 1 | $154 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $109 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $53 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $52 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $47 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $44 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $33 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $18 |
| Omniscient Neurotechnology America Ltd | 1 | $17 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- XLIF$622
- RISE$551
- TLIF$423
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$234
- Pulse$194
- ALLOGRAFT$171
- AttraX$152
- nanoLOCK-C$137
- MazorX - Renaissance$137
- ACP$133
- VECTRIS$130
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$118
- OsteoAMP$109
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$109
- Modulus$106
- TLX$106
- Proclaim IPG$104
- Proclaim Family of SCS IPGs$104
- INTELLIS$102
- ACIS$101
How this compares
$6,993 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 116 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 44 | $370 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 23 | $245 |
| Methocarbamol | 14 | $178 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 24 | $165 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Baton Rouge
- Eric OberlanderBaton Rouge$660K
- Kelly ScrantzBaton Rouge$128K
- Charles BowieBaton Rouge$60K
- Paul WaguespackBaton Rouge$43K
- Gregory FauthereeBaton Rouge$20K
- Garrett VenableBaton Rouge$6K
- Richard StangerBaton Rouge$6K
- Anthony SinShreveport$1.5M
- Sebastian KogaHammond$720K
- Najeeb ThomasMetairie$440K
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.