Eric Linville, MD
Surgery · Lake Charles, LANPI 1023514569
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 15 payments — averaging $135.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$1K
- Kerecis Limited$318
- Conmed Corporation$103
- Intuitive Surgical$103
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$50
- TELA Bio, Inc.$49
- plus $150 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,04151%
- Food & beverage$99549%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $1,265 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $318 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $103 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 1 | $103 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $50 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $44 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $31 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,272
- SpyGlass Discover$1,265
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$318
- AIRSEAL$103
- Da Vinci Surgical System$103
How this compares
$2,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tramadol Hcl | 16 | $17 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lake Charles
- Matias NautsLake Charles$112K
- Darin DoumiteLake Charles$20K
- Justin RuddLake Charles$17K
- Amanda EllingtonLake Charles$16K
- Richard ShimerLake Charles$14K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Ari CohenNew Orleans$406K
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Karl LeblancBaton Rouge$341K
- Douglas SlakeyNew Orleans$318K
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.