George Smith, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Opelousas, LANPI 1134178585
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 10 payments — averaging $20.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$60
- Bioventus LLC$45
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$40
- Abbott$21
- Smith+Nephew$15
- KCI USA, Inc.$13
- plus $12 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$206100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Bioventus LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$206 in reported general payments places this provider in the 15th percentile of 92 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 112 | $3,471 |
| Gabapentin | 185 | $1,828 |
| Ammonium Lactate | 35 | $632 |
| Ketoconazole | 25 | $432 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 71 | $379 |
| Cephalexin | 69 | $364 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 27 | $286 |
| Meloxicam | 123 | $268 |
| Colchicine | 11 | $191 |
| Pregabalin | 13 | $137 |
| Naproxen | 16 | $130 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 23 | $125 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 17 | $63 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 12 | $36 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Opelousas
- Briana BellOpelousas$1K
- Brian BensonLeesville$287K
- Meredith WarnerBaton Rouge$232K
- Tyson GreenLake Charles$203K
- Bryon McKennaThibodaux$131K
- Mohamad IssaNew Orleans$24K
- Leon WatkinsMetairie$18K
- Phuoc BuiMinden$15K
- Henrique HilarioShreveport$14K
- Beau WillisMetairie$13K
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.