Jacob Daigle, MD
Surgery · Covington, LANPI 1306071469
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (48.7%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 62.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,389 and has fallen 97.9% since, to $158 in 2025.
Across 58 payments — averaging $240.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$9K
- Globus Medical$3K
- Medtronic$1K
- Stryker$811
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$78
- Kerecis Limited$56
- plus $257 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,78149%
- Food & beverage$2,14215%
- Education$5,00036%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 24 | $8,663 |
| Globus Medical | 11 | $3,057 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $1,001 |
| Stryker | 2 | $811 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $56 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $45 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| BD | 1 | $17 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$8,195
- CREO MIS$1,095
- 1688$648
- INDEPENDENCE MIS$533
- FORTIFY$529
- RISE-L$259
- MARS 3V Lateral Retractor$181
- Sable$181
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$163
- CORBEL$108
How this compares
$13,923 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 381 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 82 | $567 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 82 | $386 |
| Chlorhexidine Gluconate | 79 | $300 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 52 | $227 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 12 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Covington
- Ralph CorsettiCovington$29K
- James RedmannCovington$21K
- Matthew FrenchCovington$12K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Joseph BuellNew Orleans$186K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Matias NautsLake Charles$112K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
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.