Jeffrey Carter, MD
Trauma Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1568645703
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $176,229 of the $291,881 with a category attached, or 60.4%. Avita Medical Americas, LLC accounts for 92.9% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $105,767 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $5,011 in 2025. Among trauma 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 118 payments — averaging $2473.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$271K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$12K
- Medline Industries LP$4K
- Trevena, Inc.$3K
- BD$2K
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$139
- plus $184 from 3 others
Across 18 payments — averaging $8409.12 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$95K
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$51K
- Polynovo North America LLC$5K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$49,20717%
- Speaking & faculty fees$176,22960%
- Travel & lodging$16,3396%
- Food & beverage$5,1062%
- Charitable contribution$45,00015%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 107 | $271,253 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $11,680 |
| Medline Industries LP | 2 | $4,404 |
| Trevena, Inc. | 1 | $2,500 |
| BD | 2 | $1,720 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $139 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $136 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $24 |
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.
- RECELL$237,455
- STRATAGRAFT$11,680
- Olinvyk$2,500
- Cohealyx$141
- PERMEADERM$141
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$136
How this compares
$291,881 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 20 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in New Orleans
- Patrick GreiffensteinNew Orleans$161K
- Alison SmithNew Orleans$29K
- Alan MarrNew Orleans$8K
- Lance StukeNew Orleans$7K
- Laura BloomNew Orleans$4K
- Robert ReilyNew Orleans$2K
- Taylor WeardaNew Orleans$474
- Alexis ScheuermannNew Orleans$258
- Willard MosierLafayette$5K
- Forrest MooreShreveport$5K
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.