Eric Waetjen, MD
Surgery · Lake Charles, LANPI 1831540608
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 50 payments — averaging $183.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Acumed LLC$5K
- Axogen$1K
- ALON Medical Technology$1K
- Arthrex$576
- Kerecis Limited$337
- Sonex Health, Inc.$264
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$501%
- Grants$3,33336%
- Travel & lodging$3,01933%
- Food & beverage$2,78330%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Acumed LLC | 6 | $4,939 |
| Axogen | 4 | $1,040 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 6 | $1,012 |
| Arthrex | 6 | $576 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $337 |
| Sonex Health, Inc. | 5 | $264 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $170 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 2 | $146 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $145 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Vertex | 3 | $56 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Stryker | 1 | $23 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $23 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $22 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $18 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ACUMED$2,380
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,346
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$1,004
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$1,004
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$1,004
- INnate Implant$919
- InFrame Implant$919
- INTEGRA$359
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$337
- XIAFLEX$236
- Sx-One Microknife$161
- OviTex 2S$150
- Novosorb BTM$127
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$120
- PRIMATRIX$120
How this compares
$9,186 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 | 32 | $168 |
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.