Has Felix Savoie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,356,756 in general payments to Felix Savoie, MD across 134 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 Felix Savoie, 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 Felix Savoie, 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.

Felix Savoie, MD

Sports Medicine · New Orleans, LANPI 1437147659

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,244,320 of the $1,356,756 with a category attached, or 91.7%. Linvatec Corporation accounts for 64.5% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $306,194, 2.3 times the $134,024 reported in 2019. Among sports medicine clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,356,756in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 134 payments — averaging $10,125 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Linvatec Corporation$875K
Exactech, Inc.$250K
Zimmer Biomet$143K
Smith+Nephew$82K
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$5K
Synthes GmbH$1K
plus $1K from 7 others

$30,671in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $3067.10 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Stryker$29K
Smith+Nephew$2K

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,244,32092%
Consulting fees$27,7552%
Speaking & faculty fees$72,9685%
Travel & lodging$5,6700%
Food & beverage$2,3440%
Other$3,6990%

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
Linvatec Corporation	32	$874,952
Exactech, Inc.	32	$249,985
Zimmer Biomet	26	$143,250
Smith+Nephew	26	$81,702
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$4,680
Synthes GmbH	2	$1,020
Encore Medical, LP	3	$325
Stryker	6	$260
Orthalign Inc	2	$254
Azurmeds, Inc.	1	$217
ALON Medical Technology	1	$64
Davol Inc.	1	$26
Avanos Medical	1	$22

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.

Y-KNOT$601,630
EQUINOXE$249,919
LINVATEC SHOULDER ARTHROSCOPY$248,603
Ventix$73,804
Ventix Anchor$64,126
Rotation Medical Arthroscopic Instrument Kit$49,651
TRUESHOT$21,663
Healicoil$10,730
Q-FIX$8,143
Regeneten$5,969
REGENESORB$5,750
BIORAPTOR$4,980
Fast-Fix 360$4,980
Osteoraptor$4,980
VAPR$4,680
GRYPHON$4,680
BIOKNOTLESS$4,680
BRISTOW-LATARJET$4,680
Biowick$3,250
BioBrace 23mm$2,856

How this compares

$1,356,756 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 82 sports medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$232,762

Medicare patients

391

Services billed

1,445

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
Oxycodone Hcl	135	$600
Prednisone	235	$570
Doxycycline Monohydrate	32	$525
Tramadol Hcl	162	$444
Celecoxib	22	$258
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	39	$152
Cephalexin	13	$109
Gabapentin	42	$88
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	13	$86
Amoxicillin	19	$71

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other sports medicine in New Orleans

Misty SuriNew Orleans$1.2M
Michael ObrienNew Orleans$391K
Brian GodshawNew Orleans$69K
Paul PhillipsNew Orleans$26K
Wendell HeardNew Orleans$17K
Russell RussoNew Orleans$16K
Kelly HillNew Orleans$9K
Scott MontgomeryNew Orleans$7K
Brett CascioLake Charles$82K
Andrew GottschalkJefferson$45K

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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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