Jessica Rivera, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1629273867
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $12,700 of the $20,183 with a category attached, or 62.9%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bioventus LLC at 45.0% of the total.
Across 38 payments — averaging $531.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bioventus LLC$9K
- Bonalive Inc$5K
- Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc.$4K
- Stryker$638
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$635
- Carbofix Orthopedics Inc$569
- plus $617 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,70063%
- Travel & lodging$5,20626%
- Food & beverage$2,27711%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $9,075 |
| Bonalive Inc | 3 | $4,952 |
| Nuvasive Specialized Orthopedics, Inc. | 3 | $3,698 |
| Stryker | 10 | $638 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 6 | $635 |
| Carbofix Orthopedics Inc | 5 | $569 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 2 | $270 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 2 | $72 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $61 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $53 |
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
$20,183 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 286 orthopaedic 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 orthopaedic surgery in New Orleans
- Robert ZuraNew Orleans$597K
- Fernando SanchezNew Orleans$484K
- Matthew CableNew Orleans$79K
- Gustavo GodoyNew Orleans$76K
- Cameron KingNew Orleans$74K
- Ramin SadeghpourNew Orleans$37K
- Robert HuangNew Orleans$28K
- Leland McCluskeyNew Orleans$24K
- Willard MooreNew Orleans$23K
- Richard MeyerNew Orleans$16K
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.