Luke Hunter, DPM
Foot & Ankle Surgery · Monroe, LANPI 1457772774
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,953 of the $2,460 with a category attached, or 79.4%. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 12.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for foot & ankle surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $2,260.
Across 69 payments — averaging $35.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- DJO, LLC$315
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc.$285
- Stryker$269
- Rikco International, LLC$192
- Vaporox, Inc.$167
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$160
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,95379%
- Education$50721%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| DJO, LLC | 4 | $315 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 5 | $285 |
| Stryker | 5 | $269 |
| Rikco International, LLC | 4 | $192 |
| Vaporox, Inc. | 1 | $167 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $160 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 1 | $140 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Convatec Inc. | 6 | $134 |
| Bioventus LLC | 6 | $122 |
| Biowound Solutions, Inc. | 7 | $109 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $105 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $66 |
| Trice Medical, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $44 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $35 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $24 |
| Triad Life Sciences Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $17 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DR COMFORT$206
- VHT-200 Wound Treatment System$167
- Arsenal$140
How this compares
$2,460 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 92 foot & ankle 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pregabalin | 96 | $2,665 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 91 | $1,391 |
| Gabapentin | 67 | $1,119 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 43 | $886 |
| Clotrimazole | 48 | $505 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 39 | $453 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 18 | $374 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 16 | $320 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 15 | $316 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 49 | $261 |
| Terbinafine Hcl | 99 | $215 |
| Fluconazole | 17 | $204 |
| Meloxicam | 50 | $176 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $115 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 12 | $106 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot & ankle surgery in Monroe
- Christian ValleMonroe$2K
- Grant DonaMonroe$1K
- Brian BensonLeesville$278K
- Meredith WarnerBaton Rouge$232K
- Tyson GreenLake Charles$203K
- Bryon McKennaThibodaux$131K
- Mohamad IssaNew Orleans$24K
- Leon WatkinsMetairie$18K
- Phuoc BuiMinden$15K
- Henrique HilarioShreveport$14K
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.