Lauren Baumgarten, MD
Trauma Surgery · Hammond, LANPI 1972980993
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $702 of the $1,090 with a category attached, or 64.4%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 34.4% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $4,142.
Across 20 payments — averaging $54.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$375
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$218
- Zimmer Biomet$216
- KCI USA, Inc.$82
- Kerecis Limited$43
- AstraZeneca$40
- plus $116 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$918%
- Food & beverage$70264%
- Education$29727%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $375 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $218 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $216 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $43 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $40 |
| Merck | 2 | $27 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $16 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 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.
How this compares
$1,090 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 20 trauma 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 trauma surgery in Hammond
- Michael FahrHammond$5K
- Jeffrey CarterNew Orleans$292K
- Patrick GreiffensteinNew Orleans$161K
- Alison SmithNew Orleans$29K
- Alan MarrNew Orleans$8K
- Lance StukeNew Orleans$7K
- Willard MosierLafayette$5K
- Forrest MooreShreveport$5K
- Navdeep SamraShreveport$5K
- Laura BloomNew Orleans$4K
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.