Brent Allain, MD
Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1093923583
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 138 payments — averaging $59.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$2K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$879
- Kerecis Limited$573
- Intuitive Surgical$501
- Medtronic$326
- plus $2K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,53219%
- Food & beverage$6,35978%
- Education$2643%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 14 | $1,854 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 23 | $1,654 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 16 | $879 |
| Kerecis Limited | 10 | $573 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 7 | $501 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $326 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $307 |
| Conmed Corporation | 2 | $222 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $211 |
| Standard Bariatrics, Inc. | 2 | $210 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $196 |
| BD | 3 | $154 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $100 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 6 | $100 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $77 |
| Stryker | 2 | $74 |
| Covidien LP | 3 | $59 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $51 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $49 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $48 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $40 |
| Merck | 1 | $32 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $19 |
| Apria Healthcare LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 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.
- LINX Reflux Management System$1,120
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$1,007
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$982
- STRATAFIX$888
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$768
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$548
- INTEGRA$446
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$437
- Enseal$405
- TITAN SGS STANDARD GASTRIC STAPLER$311
- Phasix Mesh$271
- Da Vinci Surgical System$264
- Harmonic$255
- OMNIGRAFT$149
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$149
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$128
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$128
- Echelon Flex$127
- AIRSEAL$123
- HARMONIC Product Family$123
How this compares
$8,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 381 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ursodiol | 12 | $824 |
| Omeprazole | 30 | $255 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 21 | $123 |
| Gabapentin | 17 | $24 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Baton Rouge
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Karl LeblancBaton Rouge$341K
- 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
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.