RxDoctor Payments Data

Mario Lobao Goncalves, MD

Sports Medicine · Shreveport, LANPI 1063922573

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $27,678 of the $32,297 with a category attached, or 85.7%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 87.8% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $25,089 and has fallen 92.2% since, to $1,960 in 2025. Among sports medicine 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.

$32,297in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $556.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Smith+Nephew$28K
  • Stryker$2K
  • Zimmer Biomet$717
  • Catalyst Orthoscience$616
  • Anika Therapeutics, Inc.$134
  • Convatec Inc.$133
  • plus $533 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1340%
  • Food & beverage$4,48514%
  • Education$27,67886%

General payments by program year

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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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Smith+Nephew15$28,348
Stryker17$1,816
Zimmer Biomet7$717
Catalyst Orthoscience6$616
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.1$134
Convatec Inc.1$133
Axogen2$120
Biocomposites Inc1$113
Arthrex1$113
Acumed LLC1$47
Davol Inc.1$35
Xiros Inc1$30
Amgen1$23
Orthalign Inc1$21
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$19
Kinex Medical Company LLC1$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

$32,297 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 82 sports medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$86,999
Medicare patients
90
Services billed
454

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.

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