Jorge Isaza, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1639127335
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,146,078 of the $1,218,384 with a category attached, or 94.1%. Globus Medical accounts for 91.8% of it on its own, with 39 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $266,579 and has fallen 70.6% since, to $78,413 in 2025. Among orthopaedic 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 186 payments — averaging $6550.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$1.1M
- Mirus, LLC$67K
- Zimmer Biomet$11K
- Si-bone, Inc.$9K
- Stryker$3K
- Arthrex$3K
- plus $8K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$1,146,07894%
- Consulting fees$53,4404%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,5000%
- Travel & lodging$10,7061%
- Food & beverage$5,5170%
- Gifts$990%
- Entertainment$440%
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.
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.
- RISE$616,926
- TRANSITION$500,884
- EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$66,581
- CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$44,905
- MiRus 3DR Lumbar Interbody System$16,407
- IO Expandable Lumbar Interbody$16,407
- RIGEL 3DR Cervical Interbody$16,407
- Alta$11,131
- iFuse Implant$6,470
- ANCHOR C$3,250
- AERO$3,250
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$1,250
- Enza$1,068
- FlareHawk$745
- FORTIFY$385
- Medical Device$326
- Medical Devices$210
- FIBERGRAFT$205
- SurgX$125
- Xperience$125
How this compares
$1,218,384 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 27 | $317 |
| Gabapentin | 27 | $287 |
| Baclofen | 13 | $80 |
| Meloxicam | 13 | $56 |
| Celecoxib | 11 | $46 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $46 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Baton Rouge
- Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3M
- Kevin McCarthyBaton Rouge$594K
- Robert EastonBaton Rouge$394K
- Ricardo RodriguezBaton Rouge$262K
- Wame WaggenspackBaton Rouge$82K
- Shaun AccardoBaton Rouge$52K
- Kevin RicheBaton Rouge$33K
- William ShermanBaton Rouge$29K
- David FerachiBaton Rouge$16K
- Vinod DasaKenner$1.9M
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.