Darin Doumite, MD
Surgery · Lake Charles, LANPI 1346417763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $14,000 of the $19,795 with a category attached, or 70.7%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 81.3% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $14,263 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $218 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 84 payments — averaging $235.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$16K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$691
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$299
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$148
- Kerecis Limited$128
- plus $631 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,48713%
- Food & beverage$3,05815%
- Education$14,00071%
- Gifts$2501%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 31 | $16,085 |
| Globus Medical | 3 | $1,812 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $691 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $299 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $128 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $103 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $78 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $63 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $57 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Veracyte, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $34 |
| Innocoll Pharmaceuticals Limited | 2 | $31 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Merck | 1 | $21 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,342
- INDEPENDENCE$1,167
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- RISE-L$633
- INTEGRA$301
- SURGIMEND$299
- OMNIGRAFT$150
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$150
- CellerateRx$148
- AIRSEAL$103
How this compares
$19,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 381 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 | 28 | $60 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lake Charles
- Matias NautsLake Charles$112K
- Justin RuddLake Charles$17K
- Amanda EllingtonLake Charles$16K
- Richard ShimerLake Charles$14K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Joseph BuellNew Orleans$186K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
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.