RxDoctor Payments Data

Douglas Lurie, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1245385046

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,189in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $51.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Stryker$910
  • Smith+Nephew$81
  • Medacta USA, Inc.$79
  • Johnson & Johnson$29
  • Amgen$28
  • Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.$20
  • plus $42 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$38232%
  • Food & beverage$80768%

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

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Stryker11$910
Smith+Nephew2$81
Medacta USA, Inc.3$79
Johnson & Johnson1$29
Amgen2$28
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.1$20
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC1$15
Medtronic1$14
ERMI LLC1$13

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.

How this compares

$1,189 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$41,530
Medicare patients
101
Services billed
1,724

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Diclofenac Sodium28$1,260
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen84$1,200
Tramadol Hcl185$1,108
Methylprednisolone69$618
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen31$566
Ibuprofen26$309
Tizanidine Hcl30$308
Meloxicam111$164
Celecoxib11$143
Gabapentin20$105
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine18$104

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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