Jason Breaux, CRNA
Nurse Anesthetist, Certified Registered · Lafayette, LANPI 1710937107
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $564 of the $697 with a category attached, or 80.9%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 80.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $602 and has fallen 96.7% since, to $20 in 2025. Among nurse anesthetist, certified registered clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 12 payments — averaging $58.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$564
- Merck$28
- Medtronic$23
- Abiomed$20
- Haemonetics Corporation$19
- Phadia US Inc.$15
- plus $28 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$56481%
- Food & beverage$13319%
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 | 4 | $564 |
| Merck | 2 | $28 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $23 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $20 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Acacia Pharma Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$697 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,283 nurse anesthetist, certified registered 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.
Other nurse anesthetist, certified registered in Lafayette
- Stephen ChauvinLafayette$19K
- Carrie ManuelLafayette$1K
- Guy PicardLafayette$807
- John FosterLafayette$783
- Remi JudiceLafayette$723
- Curtis SanfordLafayette$713
- Carolyn ApplebaumMandeville$7K
- Thomas SmithShreveport$5K
- Georga HelmerIndependence$4K
- Sarah MontgomeryShreveport$2K
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.