George Williams, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Opelousas, LANPI 1942231865
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,123 of the $4,595 with a category attached, or 68.0%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 37.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,842 and has fallen 98.4% since, to $30 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $12,239.
Across 79 payments — averaging $58.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$2K
- Integrity Implants Inc.$2K
- Abbott$275
- Intrinsic Therapeutics$183
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$155
- GSK$137
- plus $587 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,12368%
- Food & beverage$1,42831%
- Gifts$441%
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 | 8 | $1,702 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 11 | $1,555 |
| Abbott | 11 | $275 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 1 | $183 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 8 | $155 |
| GSK | 9 | $137 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $90 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $68 |
| Medtronic | 4 | $67 |
| Stryker | 1 | $52 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 5 | $51 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $50 |
| Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Depuy Synthes Products, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $16 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $9 |
| Nexxt Spine LLC | 1 | $3 |
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.
- Excelsius - GPS$1,578
- FlareHawk$1,304
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$366
How this compares
$4,595 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Louisiana.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 264 | $5,877 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 135 | $1,092 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 170 | $1,070 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 68 | $684 |
| Pregabalin | 28 | $546 |
| Naproxen | 12 | $476 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 107 | $473 |
| Metaxalone | 13 | $382 |
| Meloxicam | 112 | $329 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 55 | $244 |
| Methylprednisolone | 38 | $232 |
| Gabapentin | 36 | $216 |
| Ibuprofen | 23 | $160 |
| Levofloxacin | 52 | $104 |
| Methocarbamol | 19 | $83 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Opelousas
- Mathew CyriacNew Orleans$368K
- Joseph ZavatskyMetairie$205K
- Lon BaronneLafayette$190K
- Alexis WaguespackMetairie$63K
- Charles YuNew Orleans$52K
- Stephen HogeShreveport$48K
- William AccoustiNew Orleans$46K
- Amit BhandutiaNew Orleans$39K
- Milan ModyShreveport$33K
- Christopher CenacHouma$33K
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.