Paul Gladden, MD
Orthopaedic Trauma · New Orleans, LANPI 1629039722
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (56.2%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 62.8% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $107,675 and has fallen 50.7% since, to $53,043 in 2025.
Across 262 payments — averaging $1198.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$197K
- Synthes GmbH$114K
- Johnson & Johnson$3K
- Smith+Nephew$195
- Stryker$176
- Lifenet Health$123
- plus $59 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$176,50256%
- Speaking & faculty fees$67,91022%
- Travel & lodging$60,70519%
- Food & beverage$8,9123%
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. | 121 | $197,124 |
| Synthes GmbH | 93 | $113,846 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 40 | $2,506 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $195 |
| Stryker(2 entities) | 2 | $176 |
| Lifenet Health | 1 | $123 |
| Next Science LLC | 1 | $36 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $23 |
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.
- NA$116,009
- TFN ADVANCED$66,211
- IM NAILS$64,677
- DHS$64,553
- TFN-Advance$55,787
- VA-LCP$1,976
- MULTILOC HUMERAL NAIL$995
- MODULAR CATHCART Femoral Head$667
- ORTHOPEDIC CABLE / PERIPROSTHETIC SYSTEM$411
- LCP$292
- BME NITINOL CONTINUOUS COMPRESSION IMPLANTS$233
- LCP PLATES & SCREWS$232
- Fibulink$229
- CONEXTIONS TR TENDON REPAIR SYSTEM-IMPLANT MECHANISM$146
- VARIAX$146
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$138
- VMIS$123
- HEADLESS COMPRESSION SCREWS$117
- RIA$117
How this compares
Too few orthopaedic trauma providers in Louisianato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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.
Other orthopaedic trauma in New Orleans
- Krishna VemulapalliNew Orleans$170K
- Murphy MartinNew Orleans$85K
- Daniel MilesNew Orleans$27K
- Avrey NovakNew Orleans$21K
- Olivia LeeNew Orleans$4K
- James MautnerNew Orleans$3K
- Vince LandsHammond$30K
- James HlavacekLafayette$14K
- Elliott NipperMonroe$10K
- Peter KrauseKenner$5K
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.