Jason Breaux, MD
Surgery · Lafayette, LANPI 1619167517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $44,600 of the $55,745 with a category attached, or 80.0%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.3% of it on its own, with 28 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $27,317 and has fallen 77.6% since, to $6,113 in 2025. Among surgery 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 133 payments — averaging $419.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$51K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Biom'up France SAS$780
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$678
- Johnson & Johnson$276
- Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.$199
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$5001%
- Travel & lodging$5,42210%
- Food & beverage$5,2239%
- Education$44,60080%
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 | 51 | $51,434 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,202 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 11 | $780 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 7 | $678 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 11 | $276 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $199 |
| Merck | 9 | $184 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $146 |
| Biom'up SA | 2 | $102 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 6 | $74 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Eisai Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $45 |
| Gilead | 2 | $35 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $33 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $29 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $29 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $27 |
| Geron Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $20 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $12 |
| Bolder Surgical LLC | 1 | $8 |
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$51,010
- HARMONIC Product Family$1,132
- ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$1,132
- HemoBlast Bellows$538
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$445
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$322
- TRINAV INFUSION SYSTEM$199
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent$161
- ENROUTE Enflate Transcarotid RX Balloon Dilatation Catheter$161
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$146
How this compares
$55,745 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin Sulfate | 23 | $120 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 39 | $96 |
| Metronidazole | 24 | $53 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 11 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Lafayette
- Simon Peter TiuLafayette$11K
- 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
- Kamel BraktaShreveport$95K
- Kerry ThibodeauxOpelousas$84K
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.