John Cefalu, MD
Interventional Pain Medicine · Shreveport, LANPI 1659804979
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $50,000 of the $70,739 with a category attached, or 70.7%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 56.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $51,709 and has fallen 94.4% since, to $2,879 in 2025. Among interventional pain medicine 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 338 payments — averaging $209.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$40K
- Medtronic$22K
- Relievant Medsystems, Inc.$1K
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$936
- Surgentec$809
- Interventional Pain Technologies Inc.$781
- plus $4K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Grants$50,00071%
- Travel & lodging$7,68911%
- Food & beverage$12,98618%
- Education$640%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 189 | $40,021 |
| Medtronic | 28 | $22,470 |
| Relievant Medsystems, Inc. | 9 | $1,259 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 16 | $936 |
| Surgentec | 1 | $809 |
| Interventional Pain Technologies Inc. | 4 | $781 |
| Abbott | 11 | $766 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 7 | $730 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 9 | $595 |
| Painteq LLC | 10 | $434 |
| Nevro Corp. | 5 | $407 |
| AbbVie | 7 | $319 |
| Curonix LLC | 9 | $311 |
| Globus Medical | 5 | $177 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 3 | $161 |
| Nalu Medical, Inc. | 2 | $111 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 6 | $108 |
| Amgen | 5 | $86 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 2 | $69 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $63 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Protega Pharmaceutials Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
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.
- WAVEWRITER ALPHA$31,103
- SYNCHROMED$20,000
- Intracept$4,662
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$2,246
- SYNCHROMEDII$1,653
- Superion Indirect Decompression System$1,173
- TiLink$809
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$592
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$295
- PROCLAIM$295
- Evoke$259
- mild Device Kit$225
- PAINTEQ$214
- Omnia$199
- Evoke SCS$175
- ETERNA$148
- SUPERION$146
- HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$129
- QULIPTA$125
- UBRELVY$125
How this compares
$70,739 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 57 interventional pain medicine 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 341 | $6,498 |
| Buprenorphine | 12 | $3,789 |
| Gabapentin | 233 | $2,275 |
| Pregabalin | 125 | $1,691 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 59 | $1,221 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 80 | $829 |
| Mupirocin | 87 | $740 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 62 | $629 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 18 | $363 |
| Meloxicam | 120 | $328 |
| Cephalexin | 87 | $266 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 28 | $254 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $215 |
| Methylprednisolone | 12 | $101 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 11 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other interventional pain medicine in Shreveport
- William WhyteShreveport$39K
- Randall BrewerShreveport$19K
- Jefferey AdairShreveport$5K
- James WagesShreveport$3K
- Jai MunjampalliShreveport$3K
- Maged GuirguisNew Orleans$565K
- Suneil JollyKenner$107K
- Steve LeeSlidell$57K
- Paul HubbellMetairie$33K
- Ken EhrhardtHammond$22K
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.