Has Nicholas Leblanc, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $69,517 in general payments to Nicholas Leblanc, MD across 171 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Nicholas Leblanc, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Nicholas Leblanc, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Nicholas Leblanc, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1457618738

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by education: $52,000 of the $69,517 with a category attached, or 74.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 92.0% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $25,615, 3.7 times the $6,942 reported in 2020. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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.

$69,517in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 171 payments — averaging $406.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$64K
Zimmer Biomet$3K
Johnson & Johnson$808
Atricure, Inc.$574
Davol Inc.$361
Merit Medical Systems Inc$350
plus $673 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7801%
Speaking & faculty fees$5001%
Travel & lodging$8,81813%
Food & beverage$7,41911%
Education$52,00075%

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
Intuitive Surgical	105	$63,953
Zimmer Biomet	18	$2,798
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	10	$808
Atricure, Inc.	11	$574
Davol Inc.	8	$361
Merit Medical Systems Inc	1	$350
Steris Corporation	2	$142
Sanara Medtech Inc.	1	$135
Smith+Nephew	2	$98
Kls-martin L.p.	3	$65
Merck	2	$57
Conmed Corporation	2	$38
B. Braun Interventional Systems Inc.	1	$31
AbbVie	1	$29
Stryker	1	$29
ALON Medical Technology	1	$20
Medtronic	1	$16
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$14

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$58,714
DAVINCI XI$3,000
RIBFIX TITAN$989
AdvantageRib$651
Monarch Platform$421
AEROmini Stent and Delivery System$350
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOSPHERE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM$234
RibFix Blu$145
ECHELON ENDOPATH Stapler$143
Progel Applicator Spray Tips$139
CellerateRx$135
ATRICURE CRYOICE CRYOABLATION SYSTEM (CRYO2)$112
Echelon Flex$105

How this compares

$69,517 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$98,783

Medicare patients

160

Services billed

463

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
Pantoprazole Sodium	38	$557
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	19	$492
Nystatin	14	$241
Methocarbamol	18	$133

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Baton Rouge

Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
Imtiaz KhanBaton Rouge$42K
Azeem KhanBaton Rouge$24K
Shafi MohamedBaton Rouge$16K
William BoedefeldBaton Rouge$13K
Jared MurdockBaton Rouge$10K
Terry StellyBaton Rouge$8K
Thomas MarsdenBaton Rouge$2K
Carl RigbyBaton Rouge$2K
Walter Bringaze IiiBaton Rouge$2K

See the full list for Louisiana →

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.

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