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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,821,367 in general payments to Pierce Nunley, MD across 881 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

$3,821,367in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 881 payments — averaging $4337.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$1.1M
Centinel Spine, LLC$661K
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$490K
Globus Medical$329K
Spineology Inc.$262K
VB Spine LLC$153K
plus $857K from 38 others

$212,463in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $9657.39 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.

Spineology Inc.$136K
Bioventus LLC$30K
Intrinsic Therapeutics$30K
Stryker$10K
Spineart SA$6K

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	66	$1,070,159
Centinel Spine, LLC	149	$661,190
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	69	$489,637
Globus Medical(2 entities)	194	$328,879
Spineology Inc.	72	$261,813
VB Spine LLC	12	$152,551
Intrinsic Therapeutics	54	$150,708
Pfizer	29	$137,361
Philadelphia Medical Management Company LLC	3	$90,741
Zimmer Biomet	9	$84,855
The Institute Of Musculoskeletal Science And Education	34	$83,244
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	34	$70,674
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	10	$66,498
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
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	7	$15,623
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	11	$14,316
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	6	$6,033
Bioventus LLC	2	$5,806
Mirus, LLC	6	$5,104
Dymicron	2	$4,125
Camber Spine Technologies LLC	5	$3,400
Theradaptive, Inc.	3	$2,896
Axiomed LLC	1	$2,350
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
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

$3,821,367 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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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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