Has Patrick Fitzsimmons received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,650 in general payments to Patrick Fitzsimmons across 51 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 Patrick Fitzsimmons 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 Patrick Fitzsimmons 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.

Patrick Fitzsimmons

Pain Medicine · Slidell, LANPI 1215496484

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.2%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Nevro Corp. at 37.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,791 and has fallen 87.9% since, to $458 in 2025.

$5,650in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $110.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Nevro Corp.$2K
Boston Scientific$2K
Medtronic$417
Stryker$341
Avanos Medical$273
Curonix LLC$268
plus $379 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,15020%
Food & beverage$3,28658%
Education$1,21421%

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
Nevro Corp.	11	$2,116
Boston Scientific	15	$1,855
Medtronic	7	$417
Stryker	3	$341
Avanos Medical	4	$273
Curonix LLC	2	$268
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$122
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$109
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$34
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	1	$29
AbbVie	1	$28
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$23
Hydrocision, Inc.	1	$20
Pfizer	1	$13

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.

Senza$1,884
WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$454
PNS FREEDOM-4A PERMANENT NEUROSTIMULATOR RECEIVER KIT CHANNEL A$268
SPINEJACK$167
KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$166
GENERATOR$158
OSTEOCOOL RF ABLATION SYSTEM$129
Qutenza$122

How this compares

$5,650 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 97 pain medicine providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$6,907

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Celecoxib	16	$181
Baclofen	12	$155
Oxycodone Hcl	11	$117
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	12	$100

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.