Has Pierce Nunley, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,843,452 in general payments to Pierce Nunley, MD across 353 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 Pierce Nunley, 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 Pierce Nunley, 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.

Pierce Nunley, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1417940750

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by royalties or licence payments: $1,487,441 of the $1,843,452 with a category attached, or 80.7%. 40 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 57.0% of the total. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$1,843,452in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 353 payments — averaging $5222.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1.1M
VB Spine LLC$153K
Spineology Inc.$98K
Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC$91K
Zimmer Biomet$85K
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education$83K
plus $284K from 34 others

$2,190,140in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 543 payments — averaging $4033.41 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Centinel Spine, LLC$651K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$479K
Spineology Inc.$299K
Globus Medical$268K
Pfizer$137K
Intrinsic Therapeutics$131K
plus $223K from 8 others

$238in ownership & investment interests, 2019–2025

Across 7 payments — averaging $33.93 each. An ownership or investment interest held by the physician or an immediate family member.

Spineology Inc.$238

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$1,487,44181%
Consulting fees$234,44013%
Speaking & faculty fees$57,9513%
Travel & lodging$46,3423%
Food & beverage$16,5871%
Gifts$6910%

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
Stryker	52	$1,050,019
VB Spine LLC	12	$152,551
Spineology Inc.	58	$98,387
Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC	3	$90,741
Zimmer Biomet	8	$84,610
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	34	$83,244
Globus Medical(2 entities)	15	$60,678
Intrinsic Therapeutics	16	$48,988
Zimvie Inc.	9	$43,706
Highridge Medical LLC	10	$23,742
Integrity Implants Inc.	27	$23,556
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	8	$16,907
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	11	$14,316
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	8	$10,488
Centinel Spine, LLC	7	$9,830
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	6	$6,033
Mirus, LLC	6	$5,104
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$4,500
Dymicron	2	$4,125
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	5	$3,400
Theradaptive, Inc.	3	$2,896
Spinal Elements, Inc.	18	$2,003
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$1,250
Medtronic(2 entities)	7	$689
Carlsmed, Inc.	2	$393
Titan Spine, LLC	2	$175
Boston Scientific	2	$167
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	1	$151
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	1	$139
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	5	$121
Abbott	2	$117
MML US, Inc.	1	$105
Silony Medical Corp.	1	$92
EBI, LLC	1	$75
Baxter Healthcare	1	$41
Organogenesis Inc.	1	$39
Xtant Medical Inc	1	$25
Amgen	1	$18
ETS Wound Care LLC	1	$15
Si-bone, Inc.	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.

CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$954,643
CASCADIA$228,914
ROI-A$151,807
Rampart Duo Interbody Fusion System$63,723
Vyrsa V1$51,226
Barricaid Annular Closure Device$34,022
Enza 2.0$26,639
BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$24,623
Toro$20,534
DUO TI EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$20,009
Spira$19,737
LineSider$18,209
Neo Pedicle Screw System$13,940
ALEUTIAN INTERBODY SYSTEMS$10,694
PRODISC C SK$9,607
Rampart Duo Ti Interbody Fusion System$8,616
Simplify Cervical Artificial Disc$6,988
Enza$5,537
OPTIMESH EXPANDABLE INTERBODY FUSION SYSTEM$5,205
EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$5,089

How this compares

$1,843,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$336,535

Medicare patients

407

Services billed

3,027

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
Alprazolam	11	$6

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Mark CallananShreveport$39K
Michael NammourShreveport$38K
Eubulus KerrShreveport$33K
Massimo MorandiShreveport$28K
John GoogeShreveport$20K
Christopher CaldwellShreveport$17K
Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3M
Vinod DasaKenner$1.9M

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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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