Richard Lewis, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1821382367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $735 of the $1,169 with a category attached, or 62.9%. Zimmer Biomet accounts for 62.9% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $803 and has fallen 96.7% since, to $27 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $1,600.
Across 20 payments — averaging $58.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$735
- Davol Inc.$175
- BD$48
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$47
- Baxter Healthcare$31
- Johnson & Johnson$29
- plus $104 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$73563%
- Food & beverage$43437%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 6 | $735 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $175 |
| BD | 1 | $48 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 2 | $47 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $29 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $9 |
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.
- AdvantageRib$585
- PHASIX$128
How this compares
$1,169 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 20 surgical critical care providers in Louisiana.
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 surgical critical care in Baton Rouge
- Benjamin MartinezBaton Rouge$1K
- Floyd ScottBaton Rouge$184
- Mark MainousShreveport$133K
- Juan OchoaNew Orleans$25K
- Jeffanne MillienNew Orleans$8K
- Juan DuchesneNew Orleans$7K
- Charles HarrisNew Orleans$6K
- Marquinn DukeHammond$6K
- Patrick McGrewNew Orleans$5K
- Jeremy TimmerAlexandria$2K
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.