Lon Baronne, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Lafayette, LANPI 1770738312
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $129,188 of the $190,106 with a category attached, or 68.0%. Globus Medical accounts for 94.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 144 payments — averaging $1320.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$180K
- Innovasis Inc$10K
- Biom'up France SAS$124
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$75
- Si-bone, Inc.$28
- Abbott$21
- plus $43 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$129,18868%
- Consulting fees$16,3009%
- Speaking & faculty fees$27,20014%
- Travel & lodging$12,9767%
- Food & beverage$4,4432%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 134 | $180,004 |
| Innovasis Inc | 2 | $9,812 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 1 | $124 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 2 | $75 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Abbott | 1 | $21 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $13 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Excelsius - GPS$51,696
- Excelsius3D Imaging System$36,256
- Imaging System$32,998
- IntraLIF$30,837
- ALTERA$10,959
- CREO MIS$10,486
- ELSA$2,533
- Globus Imaging System$400
- HemoBlast Bellows$124
- CREO 5.5$100
How this compares
$190,106 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 29 orthopaedic surgery of the spine providers in Louisiana.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 106 | $1,179 |
| Gabapentin | 120 | $1,042 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 49 | $916 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 115 | $453 |
| Oxycodone Hcl | 62 | $360 |
| Pregabalin | 31 | $278 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 76 | $227 |
| Methocarbamol | 31 | $97 |
| Meloxicam | 25 | $92 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 12 | $91 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 11 | $83 |
| Hydromorphone Hcl | 11 | $73 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 12 | $61 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery of the spine in Lafayette
- Mark McDonnellLafayette$7K
- Neil RomeroLafayette$3K
- Mathew CyriacNew Orleans$368K
- Joseph ZavatskyMetairie$205K
- Alexis WaguespackMetairie$63K
- Charles YuNew Orleans$52K
- Stephen HogeShreveport$48K
- William AccoustiNew Orleans$46K
- Amit BhandutiaNew Orleans$39K
- Milan ModyShreveport$33K
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.