Cameron Best, MD
Hand Surgery · Monroe, LANPI 1912160748
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $4,891 of the $8,003 with a category attached, or 61.1%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Great Lakes Orthopedics at 46.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $2,491 and has fallen 51.2% since, to $1,215 in 2025.
Across 51 payments — averaging $156.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Great Lakes Orthopedics$4K
- Arthrex$2K
- Stryker$1K
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$549
- Curonix LLC$181
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$150
- plus $386 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20515%
- Food & beverage$1,90624%
- Education$4,89161%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Great Lakes Orthopedics | 3 | $3,691 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $1,590 |
| Stryker | 20 | $1,456 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 3 | $549 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $181 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 3 | $150 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $114 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $73 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $38 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $18 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Axogen | 1 | $14 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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
$8,003 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 29 hand 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 | 182 | $1,292 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 31 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Monroe
- Martin DegravelleMonroe$5K
- Leslie SiscoNew Orleans$169K
- Mark DodsonAlexandria$28K
- Ryan BlissBaton Rouge$11K
- Diego MirandaBossier City$10K
- Nicholas PappasMetairie$9K
- Brandon DonnellyMetairie$8K
- Sagar ShahLafayette$7K
- Brent McCartyCovington$7K
- Ross DunbarNew Orleans$6K
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.