Lance Estrada, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1467556712
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 172 payments — averaging $36.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Arthrex$1K
- ALON Medical Technology$696
- Smith+Nephew$470
- Johnson & Johnson$252
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$114
- plus $403 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,23619%
- Food & beverage$4,95278%
- Education$1502%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Stryker | 102 | $3,306 |
| Arthrex | 13 | $1,098 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 5 | $696 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $470 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 15 | $252 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| Amgen | 4 | $59 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $56 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $48 |
| Encore Medical, LP | 1 | $40 |
| Zyla Life Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $36 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Vertex | 1 | $16 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Advanced Oxygen Therapy Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $7 |
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
$6,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Celecoxib | 163 | $3,745 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 219 | $2,203 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 97 | $806 |
| Meloxicam | 322 | $726 |
| Gabapentin | 147 | $595 |
| Methylprednisolone | 47 | $305 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 61 | $224 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $112 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $96 |
| Cephalexin | 39 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in New Orleans
- Robert ZuraNew Orleans$792K
- Fernando SanchezNew Orleans$655K
- Matthew CableNew Orleans$79K
- Gustavo GodoyNew Orleans$76K
- Cameron KingNew Orleans$74K
- Ramin SadeghpourNew Orleans$37K
- Robert HuangNew Orleans$28K
- Leland McCluskeyNew Orleans$24K
- Willard MooreNew Orleans$23K
- Jessica RiveraNew Orleans$20K
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.