Lauren Saunee
Orthopaedic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1558005132
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 99 payments — averaging $53.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$3K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$936
- Skeletal Dynamics Inc$248
- Medtronic$229
- ALON Medical Technology$191
- Bioventus LLC$175
- plus $818 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$63012%
- Food & beverage$4,62688%
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 | 59 | $2,658 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $936 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 5 | $248 |
| Medtronic | 6 | $229 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 3 | $191 |
| Bioventus LLC | 5 | $175 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $161 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $113 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $90 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $42 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $29 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
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.
- ALPHAVENT$275
- MAKO$259
- INSPACE$234
- Geminus$206
- Align$206
- IJS$206
- Implate$206
- Restrata Wound Matrix$161
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$157
- TMC SPEEDMTP$146
- ICONIX$133
- TRIATHLON$130
- INSIGNIA$130
- CATALYFT PL EXPANDABLE INTERBODY SYSTEM$126
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$119
- Exogen Ultrasound Bone Healing System$117
- GAMMA$115
- VARIAX$115
- Stimulan$113
- T2 ALPHA$103
How this compares
$5,256 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tranexamic Acid | 15 | $846 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 23 | $356 |
| Famotidine | 15 | $195 |
| Cephalexin | 15 | $45 |
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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.