Meredith Warner, MD
Foot and Ankle Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1467516567
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 432 payments — averaging $536.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Orthofix Medical, Inc.$134K
- Extremity Medical$32K
- Novastep Inc.$18K
- Bonalive Inc$17K
- Bioventus LLC$14K
- Arthrex$5K
- plus $12K from 28 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $23,369 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Bioventus LLC$47K
What the payments were for
- Royalty or licence$18,6188%
- Consulting fees$161,64370%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,0002%
- Travel & lodging$34,63915%
- Food & beverage$10,4475%
- Education$2,4001%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 178 | $134,174 |
| Extremity Medical | 28 | $32,172 |
| Novastep Inc. | 13 | $18,145 |
| Bonalive Inc | 6 | $16,610 |
| Bioventus LLC | 13 | $13,606 |
| Arthrex | 14 | $4,887 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 10 | $2,877 |
| Biopro, Inc. | 1 | $2,000 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 34 | $1,747 |
| Medshape, Inc. | 2 | $1,697 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 40 | $1,358 |
| Amgen | 55 | $464 |
| Ortho Solutions Inc | 5 | $361 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $251 |
| Trilliant Surgical LLC. | 3 | $230 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $217 |
| Flower Orthopedics Coporation | 1 | $125 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $113 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $107 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $104 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $79 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $76 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $70 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $58 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $48 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $26 |
| Globus Medical | 1 | $24 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $12 |
| Apria Healthcare LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 1 | $4 |
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.
- TrueLok$92,697
- GALAXY FIXATION SYSTEM$19,740
- AXIS$19,621
- Stimrouter Implantable Kit$12,620
- FUSIONFRAME Ring Lock Circular Fixator$10,273
- JUNIORTHO PLATING SYSTEM$9,990
- ANKLE HINDFOOT NAILING SYSTEM$6,742
- CENTROLOCK MIS Bunion Correction$6,643
- TL-HEX$2,109
- HEMI TOE$2,000
- TrueLok Ring Fixation System$1,866
- PECA Bunion Correction System$700
- INFINITY$566
- TL-HEX TRUELOK HEXAPOD SYSTEM$405
- GALAXY Fixation$368
- PuraPly$337
- IO FiX$294
- TRUELOK EVO$244
- Restrata Wound Matrix$161
- TRUELOK SYSTEM$136
How this compares
$231,748 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 92 foot and 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 107 | $1,507 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 57 | $1,384 |
| Fentanyl | 12 | $1,374 |
| Cephalexin | 31 | $619 |
| Celecoxib | 25 | $532 |
| Gabapentin | 73 | $488 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 23 | $210 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 21 | $145 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 13 | $128 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $108 |
| Ibuprofen | 13 | $89 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other foot and ankle surgery in Baton Rouge
- Alex DavisBaton Rouge$4K
- Brian BensonLeesville$287K
- Tyson GreenLake Charles$203K
- Bryon McKennaThibodaux$131K
- Mohamad IssaNew Orleans$24K
- Leon WatkinsMetairie$18K
- Phuoc BuiMinden$15K
- Henrique HilarioShreveport$14K
- Beau WillisMetairie$13K
- Nimish ChokshiMetairie$12K
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.