Has Donald Dietze, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $47,789 in general payments to Donald Dietze, MD across 32 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 Donald Dietze, 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 Donald Dietze, 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.

Donald Dietze, MD

Neurological Surgery · Lacombe, LANPI 1316913635

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $39,352 of the $47,789 with a category attached, or 82.3%. Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC accounts for 99.0% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $21,551, more than ten times the $1,301 reported in 2019.

$47,789in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $1493.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$47K
Medtronic$164
Stryker$72
Zimvie Inc.$61
Si-bone, Inc.$53
Augmedics Inc.$38
plus $89 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$39,35282%
Consulting fees$7,21015%
Travel & lodging$5501%
Food & beverage$6161%
Other$610%

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
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	16	$47,312
Medtronic(2 entities)	2	$164
Stryker	3	$72
Zimvie Inc.	1	$61
Si-bone, Inc.	3	$53
Augmedics Inc.	2	$38
Spinal Elements, Inc.	1	$32
Abbott	2	$32
Avanos Medical	2	$24

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.

nanoLOCK-L$148

How this compares

$47,789 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 116 neurological surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$68,877

Medicare patients

Services billed

509

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	239	$4,606
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	96	$2,261
Gabapentin	126	$1,219
Oxycodone Hcl	42	$662
Tizanidine Hcl	61	$466
Tramadol Hcl	70	$418
Methocarbamol	27	$301
Baclofen	15	$270
Diazepam	74	$254
Pregabalin	24	$225
Celecoxib	19	$202
Naproxen	14	$108
Meloxicam	31	$51
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	13	$43
Carisoprodol	11	$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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