Charles S Schumacher, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Covington, LANPI 1447544465
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 198 payments — averaging $69.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$11K
- American Orthodontics Corporation$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$457
- Amgen$334
- Davol Inc.$212
- Novus Surgical Consultants$125
- plus $551 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,15945%
- Food & beverage$7,60055%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 123 | $10,669 |
| American Orthodontics Corporation | 3 | $1,411 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 7 | $457 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 32 | $334 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $212 |
| Novus Surgical Consultants | 2 | $125 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 3 | $82 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $72 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $34 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertex | 1 | $15 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $13 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $12 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $12 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 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.
- MAKO$7,172
- EMPOWER-METAL$1,411
- EMPOWER-CERAMIC$1,411
- RADIANCE$1,411
- MASTER SERIES$1,411
- LP AND IFIT TUBES$1,411
- GMRS$403
- TRIATHLON$273
- Channel Drain$190
- SIMPLEX$149
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$122
- Fibulink$119
- Velys$103
- ACTIS$103
How this compares
$13,759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 286 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 61 | $4,814 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 270 | $1,697 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 264 | $1,250 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 340 | $1,083 |
| Mupirocin | 107 | $740 |
| Cefadroxil | 51 | $559 |
| Meloxicam | 151 | $521 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 30 | $403 |
| Methylprednisolone | 49 | $311 |
| Ibuprofen | 27 | $286 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 66 | $244 |
| Gabapentin | 47 | $238 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 16 | $166 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 23 | $163 |
| Pregabalin | 17 | $146 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Covington
- Joey LamartinaCovington$155K
- Matthew WebbCovington$20K
- Pierce NunleyShreveport$3.8M
- Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3.1M
- Vinod DasaKenner$1.9M
- Jorge IsazaBaton Rouge$1.2M
- Robert ZuraNew Orleans$792K
- Kevin McCarthyBaton Rouge$714K
- Fernando SanchezNew Orleans$655K
- Neil MakiThibodaux$620K
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.