Christopher Sugalski, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1487815445
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 194 payments — averaging $77.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$12K
- Smith+Nephew$836
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$817
- Johnson & Johnson$638
- Acera Surgical, Inc.$237
- Illuminoss Medical, Inc.$219
- plus $807 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7705%
- Travel & lodging$5,78238%
- Food & beverage$8,51257%
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 | 156 | $11,510 |
| Smith+Nephew | 8 | $836 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 3 | $817 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $638 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $237 |
| Illuminoss Medical, Inc. | 4 | $219 |
| Prosidyan, Inc | 1 | $173 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $124 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Osteoremedies, LLC | 1 | $89 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| BD | 1 | $61 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $33 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
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.
- PRO$3,745
- Actishield$838
- GAMMA$805
- T2 ALPHA$790
- Journey II XR$585
- Navio Surgical System$585
- VARIAX$537
- REDAPT Revision Hip System$368
- MAKO$354
- AXSOS$283
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$232
- JII Unicondylar Knee System$218
- T2$216
- Restrata Wound Matrix$203
- 1788$174
- Fibergraft BG Matrix$173
- PELVIS II$172
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$157
- A/R Femoral Nail$124
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$117
How this compares
$15,064 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.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New Orleans
- Robert ZuraNew Orleans$792K
- Fernando SanchezNew Orleans$655K
- Matthew CableNew Orleans$79K
- Gustavo GodoyNew Orleans$76K
- Cameron KingNew Orleans$74K
- Ramin SadeghpourNew Orleans$37K
- Robert HuangNew Orleans$28K
- Leland McCluskeyNew Orleans$24K
- Willard MooreNew Orleans$23K
- Jessica RiveraNew Orleans$20K
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.