Elliott Nipper, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · Monroe, LANPI 1902811300
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,953 of the $9,515 with a category attached, or 83.6%. Stryker accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,712 and has fallen 54.3% since, to $1,239 in 2025.
Across 173 payments — averaging $55.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$8K
- Zimmer Biomet$1K
- Curonix LLC$181
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$176
- Johnson & Johnson$169
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.$69
- plus $88 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,39815%
- Food & beverage$7,95384%
- Education$1642%
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 | 142 | $7,801 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 12 | $1,031 |
| Curonix LLC | 1 | $181 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 2 | $176 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $169 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $69 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $38 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $17 |
| Medela LLC | 1 | $9 |
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
Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in Louisianato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 121 | $42,262 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 312 | $1,806 |
| Celecoxib | 52 | $593 |
| Gabapentin | 71 | $586 |
| Mupirocin | 111 | $563 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 52 | $393 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 73 | $179 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 17 | $171 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 30 | $119 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $118 |
| Meloxicam | 21 | $103 |
| Methocarbamol | 12 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $24 | $42,262121 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. There are too few orthopaedic trauma providers in Louisianaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other orthopaedic trauma in Monroe
- Paul GladdenNew Orleans$314K
- Krishna VemulapalliNew Orleans$170K
- Murphy MartinNew Orleans$85K
- Vince LandsHammond$30K
- Daniel MilesNew Orleans$27K
- Avrey NovakNew Orleans$21K
- James HlavacekLafayette$14K
- Peter KrauseKenner$5K
- Brad ChauvinShreveport$4K
- Olivia LeeNew Orleans$4K
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.