Has Joseph Boucree, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,144 in general payments to Joseph Boucree, MD across 45 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Joseph Boucree, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Joseph Boucree, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Joseph Boucree, MD

Orthopedic Surgery · Slidell, LANPI 1730110263

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Alphatec Spine, Inc accounts for 79.5% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,902 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $120 in 2025.

$7,144in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 45 payments — averaging $158.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alphatec Spine, Inc$6K
Spineology Inc.$281
Medtronic$266
Si-bone, Inc.$192
Biom'up France SAS$171
Stryker$144
plus $408 from 11 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,28460%
Food & beverage$2,86040%

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
Alphatec Spine, Inc	18	$5,682
Spineology Inc.	1	$281
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$266
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$192
Biom'up France SAS	1	$171
Stryker	1	$144
Radius Health, Inc.	3	$63
CPM Medical Consultants, LLC	1	$63
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$59
Globus Medical	1	$47
Vertex	2	$41
Augmedics Inc.	2	$38
Atland Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$28
Biocomposites Inc	1	$25
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$17
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$15
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$12

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

Too few orthopedic surgery providers in Louisianato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,889,859

Medicare patients

127

Services billed

2,128

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	78	$1,701
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	105	$1,316
Gabapentin	103	$1,136
Celecoxib	28	$589
Methylprednisolone	76	$503
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	64	$373
Tizanidine Hcl	53	$352
Meloxicam	59	$246
Methocarbamol	38	$218
Pregabalin	13	$114
Tramadol Hcl	35	$97

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.