Has Kyle Girod, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,238 in general payments to Kyle Girod, MD across 108 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 Kyle Girod, 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 Kyle Girod, 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.

Kyle Girod, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1740239003

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.9% of the total across 108 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Spine Wave, Inc. at 53.2% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $12,239.

$6,238in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 108 payments — averaging $57.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Spine Wave, Inc.$3K
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC$889
Abbott$629
Boston Scientific$281
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.$186
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation$145
plus $793 from 10 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$6,17299%
Other$661%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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
Spine Wave, Inc.	48	$3,316
Osseus Fusion Systems, LLC	8	$889
Abbott	15	$629
Boston Scientific	16	$281
Ulrich Medical USA, Inc.	3	$186
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	2	$145
Next Science LLC	1	$125
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	3	$123
Medtronic	3	$119
Centinel Spine, LLC	2	$90
Cerapedics Inc.	1	$85
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$82
Zimvie Inc.	1	$66
Stryker	1	$37
Amgen	2	$34
Wishbone Medical Inc.	1	$33

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

$6,238 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$172,736

Medicare patients

344

Services billed

1,567

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
Gabapentin	185	$1,537
Methylprednisolone	237	$1,380
Methocarbamol	277	$1,076
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	110	$749
Diclofenac Sodium	40	$492
Meloxicam	88	$385
Tramadol Hcl	127	$362
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	33	$268
Cephalexin	12	$214
Ketorolac Tromethamine	11	$161
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	66	$143
Diclofenac Potassium	14	$138
Baclofen	23	$98
Ibuprofen	15	$96
Tizanidine Hcl	24	$88

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Baton Rouge

Mathew CyriacNew Orleans$368K
Joseph ZavatskyMetairie$205K
Lon BaronneLafayette$190K
Alexis WaguespackMetairie$63K
Charles YuNew Orleans$52K
Stephen HogeShreveport$48K
William AccoustiNew Orleans$46K
Amit BhandutiaNew Orleans$39K
Milan ModyShreveport$33K
Christopher CenacHouma$33K

See the full list for Louisiana →

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.

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