Has Christopher Cenac, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $33,069 in general payments to Christopher Cenac, MD across 141 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christopher Cenac, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christopher Cenac, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christopher Cenac, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Houma, LANPI 1366414732

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $27,068 of the $33,069 with a category attached, or 81.9%. 41 manufacturers reported payments, led by Centinel Spine, LLC at 37.8% of the total.

$33,069in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 141 payments — averaging $234.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Centinel Spine, LLC$13K
Precision Spine, Inc.$11K
Zavation Medical Products, LLC$4K
Life Spine, Inc.$2K
Abbott$469
Corelink, LLC$306
plus $3K from 35 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$27,06882%
Travel & lodging$1,6045%
Food & beverage$4,39713%

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
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$12,500
Precision Spine, Inc.	9	$11,414
Zavation Medical Products, LLC	6	$3,671
Life Spine, Inc.	3	$1,772
Abbott	11	$469
Corelink, LLC	3	$306
Amgen(2 entities)	18	$290
Globus Medical(2 entities)	3	$230
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	8	$224
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$217
Alphatec Spine, Inc	1	$189
Si-bone, Inc.	9	$188
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	2	$140
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$130
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$110
Nexxt Spine LLC	2	$99
Radius Health, Inc.	6	$95
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	1	$90
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$82
Johnson & Johnson	3	$82
Stryker	1	$72
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$70
Spineology Inc.	1	$69
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	5	$67
AbbVie(2 entities)	2	$59
Lifenet Health	1	$44
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	2	$43
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	1	$40
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	3	$39
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$39
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$31
Smith+Nephew	1	$28
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$24
CTL Medical Corporation	1	$23
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$23
Zimmer Biomet	1	$22
Bioventus LLC	1	$18
ERMI LLC	1	$17
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	1	$16
Theragen, Inc.	1	$13
Pfizer	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.

STALIF C FLX$12,500
MD Vue Lateral Access System$11,000
REFORM TI CT MODULAR MIS PEDICLE SCREW SYSTEM$7,000
REFORM TI MODULAR$7,000
Centric-S$1,695
ProLift Pivot$1,695
Cervical Plage$1,695
ETERNA$276
CD HORIZON$146
Vault C$130
Meridian$115
Excelsius - GPS$107

How this compares

$33,069 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$236,846

Medicare patients

224

Services billed

1,585

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	1,527	$31,132
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	638	$14,423
Gabapentin	850	$11,682
Celecoxib	296	$5,496
Tramadol Hcl	302	$3,500
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	271	$3,265
Fentanyl	48	$2,856
Pregabalin	157	$2,670
Meloxicam	765	$2,099
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	17	$1,115
Tizanidine Hcl	82	$1,054
Baclofen	75	$825
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	24	$793
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine	12	$575
Methocarbamol	38	$546

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Houma

Mathew CyriacNew Orleans$368K
Joseph ZavatskyMetairie$205K
Lon BaronneLafayette$190K
Alexis WaguespackMetairie$63K
Charles YuNew Orleans$52K
Stephen HogeShreveport$48K
William AccoustiNew Orleans$46K
Amit BhandutiaNew Orleans$39K
Milan ModyShreveport$33K
Michael CollinsMetairie$17K

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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.

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