Has Paul Waguespack, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $42,739 in general payments to Paul Waguespack, MD across 223 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 Paul Waguespack, 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 Paul Waguespack, 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.

Paul Waguespack, MD

Neurological Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1730178187

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $25,875 of the $42,739 with a category attached, or 60.5%. Medtronic accounts for 62.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$42,739in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 223 payments — averaging $191.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medtronic$27K
Abbott$14K
Si-bone, Inc.$994
Carlsmed, Inc.$184
Boston Scientific$152
Stryker$93
plus $266 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$25,87561%
Travel & lodging$2,4396%
Food & beverage$14,42534%

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
Medtronic(2 entities)	107	$26,636
Abbott	93	$14,414
Si-bone, Inc.	7	$994
Carlsmed, Inc.	2	$184
Boston Scientific	2	$152
Stryker	2	$93
ALON Medical Technology	1	$79
Baxter Healthcare	2	$48
Johnson & Johnson	2	$43
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$27
Globus Medical	1	$27
AstraZeneca	1	$15
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	1	$13
Aesculap, Inc.	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.

ACTIVA$17,746
INFINITY$10,851
NEXDRIVE$2,500
iFuse Implant$831
PERCEPT PC BRAINSENSE$829
SenSight$242
Percept$213

How this compares

$42,739 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 116 neurological surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$155,630

Medicare patients

158

Services billed

635

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
Ibuprofen	77	$620
Diclofenac Sodium	23	$430
Methylprednisolone	48	$290
Methocarbamol	37	$277
Amitriptyline Hcl	12	$87
IbuIbuprofen	22	$19

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Charles BowieBaton Rouge$60K
Gregory FauthereeBaton Rouge$20K
Brandon GaynorBaton Rouge$7K
Garrett VenableBaton Rouge$6K
Richard StangerBaton Rouge$6K
Anthony SinShreveport$1.5M
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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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