Joseph Griffin, MD
Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1467642777
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Philips North America LLC accounts for 71.2% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $18,499 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $928 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 265 payments — averaging $123.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Philips North America LLC$23K
- Reflow Medical Inc$3K
- Surmodics, Inc.$2K
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$885
- Silk Road Medical, Inc.$567
- Avantec Vascular Corporation$563
- plus $3K from 21 others
Across 12 payments — averaging $5612.66 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.
- Surmodics, Inc.$67K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$16,40050%
- Travel & lodging$4,04512%
- Food & beverage$8,29425%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Philips North America LLC | 56 | $23,295 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 33 | $3,418 |
| Surmodics, Inc. | 51 | $1,507 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 24 | $885 |
| Silk Road Medical, Inc. | 19 | $567 |
| Avantec Vascular Corporation | 4 | $563 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 8 | $440 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 6 | $360 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 8 | $260 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 3 | $251 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $233 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $156 |
| Bolton Medical Inc | 2 | $141 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $137 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 2 | $114 |
| Endologix LLC | 3 | $80 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $29 |
| Getinge USA Sales, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Argon Medical Devices, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Lemaitre Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Spectranetics Undiv$14,599
- IVUS Systems$2,800
- IGT D Peripheral$2,000
- IGT_D Systems$1,327
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$1,200
- Pounce Venous Thrombectomy System$592
- Pounce Thrombectomy System$453
- Lasers$297
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$182
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$182
- Pounce Thrombectomy$158
- RELAY THORACIC STENT-GRAFT WITH PLUS DELIVERY SYSTEM$131
- TREO ABDOMINAL STENT-GRAFT SYSTEM$131
- SurgX$125
- Xperience$125
- BlastX$125
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$121
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System$121
- ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System$121
- ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit$121
How this compares
$32,739 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 381 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 |
|---|---|---|
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 113 | $86,066 |
| EliquisApixaban | 93 | $57,604 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 59 | $313 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 37 | $164 |
| Lorazepam | 12 | $8 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & JohnsonXarelto | $233 | $86,066113 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 381 surgery providers in Louisiana.
Other surgery in Baton Rouge
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
- Karl LeblancBaton Rouge$55K
- Karalyn BentleyBaton Rouge$42K
- Asif TalukderBaton Rouge$42K
- Mohammad Al EfishatBaton Rouge$22K
- Danielle CobbBaton Rouge$18K
- Andrew HargroderBaton Rouge$12K
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.