Garrett Venable, MD
Neurological Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1316300502
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,249 of the $6,399 with a category attached, or 66.4%. Globus Medical accounts for 85.6% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,090, 2.3 times the $1,344 reported in 2023.
Across 81 payments — averaging $79.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$5K
- Carlsmed, Inc.$184
- Stryker$163
- Medtronic$115
- Johnson & Johnson$104
- Zimmer Biomet$93
- plus $265 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,24966%
- Food & beverage$2,15034%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 57 | $5,474 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $184 |
| Stryker | 1 | $163 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $115 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $104 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $93 |
| Abbott | 2 | $63 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $50 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $30 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$2,408
- TLIF$1,199
- Excelsius - GPS$585
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$163
- CALIBER-L$144
- CREO Threaded$126
- CREO$118
How this compares
$6,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 116 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 12 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Baton Rouge
- Eric OberlanderBaton Rouge$660K
- Kelly ScrantzBaton Rouge$128K
- Charles BowieBaton Rouge$60K
- Paul WaguespackBaton Rouge$43K
- Gregory FauthereeBaton Rouge$20K
- Brandon GaynorBaton Rouge$7K
- Richard StangerBaton Rouge$6K
- Anthony SinShreveport$1.5M
- Sebastian KogaHammond$720K
- Najeeb ThomasMetairie$440K
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.