Karalyn Bentley, MD
Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1588082937
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $27,200 of the $42,418 with a category attached, or 64.1%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 82.8% of it on its own, with 45 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $20,842 and has fallen 96.6% since, to $708 in 2025. Among 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 184 payments — averaging $230.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$35K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$753
- Johnson & Johnson$539
- Davol Inc.$355
- plus $3K from 40 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0005%
- Travel & lodging$6,23815%
- Food & beverage$6,95116%
- Education$27,20064%
- Gifts$280%
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$33,075
- STRATTICE$1,418
- DA VINCI SP$1,000
- SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforcement$930
- HARMONIC Product Family$745
- ALLODERM$691
- NATRELLE$691
- STRATAFIX$623
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$623
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$135
- GORE ENFORM Biomaterial$134
- ESOPHYX$130
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$128
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$128
- AIRSEAL$123
- ARISTA AH FLEXITIP$116
- EndoFlip$112
- APONVIE$105
- Zynrelef$105
How this compares
$42,418 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
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
- Asif TalukderBaton Rouge$42K
- Joseph GriffinBaton Rouge$33K
- 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.