Horace L Mitchell, MD
Neurological Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1396734018
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 44 payments — averaging $29.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$309
- Abbott$248
- Si-bone, Inc.$169
- Stryker$111
- Carlsmed, Inc.$90
- Medtronic$69
- plus $323 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,320100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $309 |
| Abbott | 17 | $248 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $169 |
| Stryker | 3 | $111 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $69 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $66 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $28 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $25 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $22 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $22 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Vertiflex, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $15 |
| Novocure Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th 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 | 50 | $550 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 12 | $157 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 16 | $142 |
| Methocarbamol | 22 | $116 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 13 | $112 |
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
- Allen JosephBaton Rouge$29K
- Gregory FauthereeBaton Rouge$20K
- Brandon GaynorBaton Rouge$7K
- Garrett VenableBaton Rouge$6K
- Richard StangerBaton Rouge$6K
- Anthony SinShreveport$1.6M
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.