Brian Dockendorf, MD
Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1598769432
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $50,500 of the $57,054 with a category attached, or 88.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 97.3% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $35,950 and has fallen 65.9% since, to $12,264 in 2025. Among 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 63 payments — averaging $905.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$55K
- Globus Medical$1K
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$86
- Shire North American Group Inc$67
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$60
- KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$50
- plus $281 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,5494%
- Food & beverage$3,9807%
- Education$50,50089%
- Other$250%
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 | 38 | $55,497 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $1,013 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $67 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 3 | $50 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $42 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $25 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $22 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $17 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$53,747
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- MARS Anterior Retractor$1,013
How this compares
$57,054 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 140 | $706 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 12 | $56 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Shreveport
- Kamel BraktaShreveport$95K
- Frances AlloccoShreveport$38K
- James BarnesShreveport$33K
- Amos SitShreveport$29K
- John SavoyShreveport$22K
- Ronald MowadShreveport$19K
- George MerrimanShreveport$17K
- Rohit RanganathShreveport$12K
- Jennifer KimShreveport$12K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
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.