James Barnes, MD
Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1033158837
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $21,655 of the $32,854 with a category attached, or 65.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 93.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $10,397 and has fallen 50.8% since, to $5,118 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 83 payments — averaging $395.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$31K
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$377
- Davol Inc.$125
- Baxter Healthcare$125
- Conmed Corporation$100
- plus $273 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,76121%
- Food & beverage$4,36613%
- Education$21,65566%
- Gifts$480%
- Other$250%
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 | 64 | $30,700 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 1 | $1,155 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $377 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $125 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $100 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $71 |
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $25 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $19 |
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$27,999
- DAVINCI XI$1,500
- Harmonic$127
- LINX Reflux Management System$127
- Echelon Flex$127
- Enseal$127
- PERI-STRIPS DRY$125
- Phasix Mesh$125
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$124
How this compares
$32,854 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| OzempicSemaglutide | 13 | $11,839 |
| Sucralfate | 84 | $5,264 |
| Omeprazole | 122 | $1,094 |
| Topiramate | 94 | $511 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 62 | $407 |
| Cyanocobalamin InjectionCyanocobalamin (Vitamin B-12) | 23 | $339 |
| Metronidazole | 18 | $205 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 19 | $144 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 21 | $134 |
| Meloxicam | 35 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $71 | $11,83913 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 381 surgery providers in Louisiana.
Other surgery in Shreveport
- Kamel BraktaShreveport$95K
- Brian DockendorfShreveport$57K
- Frances AlloccoShreveport$38K
- Amos SitShreveport$29K
- John SavoyShreveport$22K
- Ronald MowadShreveport$19K
- George MerrimanShreveport$17K
- Rohit RanganathShreveport$12K
- Jennifer KimShreveport$12K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
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.