Nickos Hatzis, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1598723298
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 101 payments — averaging $112.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$8K
- Arthrex$594
- ALON Medical Technology$434
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$300
- Baxter Healthcare$269
- Amgen$234
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,97562%
- Travel & lodging$1,60614%
- Food & beverage$2,74324%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 9 | $8,065 |
| Arthrex | 10 | $594 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 2 | $434 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 15 | $300 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $269 |
| Amgen | 14 | $234 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 13 | $223 |
| Stryker | 4 | $202 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 2 | $170 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $135 |
| FX Shoulder Solutions, Inc | 1 | $122 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 5 | $92 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $92 |
| Bioventus LLC | 4 | $90 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $61 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $59 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $38 |
| ERMI LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $17 |
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.
- DELTA$7,951
- GLOBAL$6,975
- MAGNETOM Altea$159
- TISSEEL$142
- FLOSEAL$127
- B1132N2AI300100$122
How this compares
$11,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 286 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 299 | $2,450 |
| Meloxicam | 347 | $1,519 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 211 | $1,177 |
| Celecoxib | 29 | $514 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 13 | $455 |
| Methylprednisolone | 36 | $183 |
| Methocarbamol | 35 | $156 |
| Cefadroxil | 14 | $150 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 93 | $146 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 14 | $51 |
| Amoxicillin | 19 | $21 |
| Naproxen | 12 | $0 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Baton Rouge
- Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3.1M
- Jorge IsazaBaton Rouge$1.2M
- Kevin McCarthyBaton Rouge$714K
- Robert EastonBaton Rouge$394K
- Ricardo RodriguezBaton Rouge$262K
- Wame WaggenspackBaton Rouge$82K
- Shaun AccardoBaton Rouge$52K
- Kevin RicheBaton Rouge$33K
- William ShermanBaton Rouge$29K
- David FerachiBaton Rouge$16K
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.