RxDoctor Payments Data

Jake Trahan, MD

Pain Medicine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1497141824

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,520 of the $8,970 with a category attached, or 61.5%. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Abbott at 45.4% of the total.

$8,970in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 199 payments — averaging $45.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$4K
  • Medtronic$2K
  • Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
  • Boston Scientific$547
  • Spinal Simplicity, LLC$248
  • Nevro Corp.$159
  • plus $1K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3,45038%
  • Food & beverage$5,52062%

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

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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.

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.

How this compares

$8,970 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 97 pain medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$348,231
Medicare patients
491
Services billed
7,604

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen1,478$25,734
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen406$11,311
Gabapentin751$8,764
Pregabalin575$8,580
Lidocaine56$4,357
Methocarbamol364$3,880
Duloxetine Hcl183$3,404
Tizanidine Hcl253$2,578
Tramadol Hcl408$2,564
Diclofenac Sodium110$2,510
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl183$1,430
Chlorzoxazone27$1,417
Celecoxib78$1,202
Naloxone Hcl12$872
Hydromorphone Hcl23$826

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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