Chelsea Thayer, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Metairie, LANPI 1558947580
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,380 of the $6,949 with a category attached, or 77.4%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 48.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,935, 5.3 times the $368 reported in 2021.
Across 139 payments — averaging $49.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- ALON Medical Technology$1K
- Convatec Inc.$539
- Organogenesis Inc.$279
- Johnson & Johnson$189
- Treace Medical Concepts, Inc.$172
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3695%
- Food & beverage$5,38077%
- Education$1,20017%
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 | 66 | $3,379 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $1,200 |
| Convatec Inc. | 15 | $539 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 3 | $279 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $189 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $172 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $152 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $143 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 7 | $137 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $124 |
| Advanced Medical Administration | 1 | $92 |
| Averitas Pharma Inc. | 3 | $79 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $74 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $68 |
| Nevro Corp. | 4 | $66 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $56 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Hartmann USA, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Reprise Biomedical, 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.
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$335
- ORTHOLOC 2 LAPIFUSE$312
- CHARLOTTE$285
- MOTOBAND$245
- AXSOS$185
- VARIAX$185
- HOFFMANN$185
- GAMMA$185
- InnovaMatrix AC$182
- ASNIS$169
- ACTISHIELD CF$159
- N/A$157
- TMC NANOPLASTY SYSTEM$144
- KRYSTEXXA$133
- PURAPLY WOUND MATRIX$130
- ANCHORAGE$130
How this compares
$6,949 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 92 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciclopirox | 12 | $268 |
| Methylprednisolone | 30 | $204 |
| Gabapentin | 34 | $144 |
| Ibuprofen | 11 | $64 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 11 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Metairie
- Leon WatkinsMetairie$18K
- Beau WillisMetairie$13K
- Nimish ChokshiMetairie$12K
- Alyssa CollinsMetairie$10K
- Amanda MudekMetairie$8K
- Jamaya Carter-KirkmanMetairie$2K
- Brian BensonLeesville$278K
- Meredith WarnerBaton Rouge$232K
- Tyson GreenLake Charles$203K
- Bryon McKennaThibodaux$131K
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.