Ronald French, MD
Hand Surgery · Kenner, LANPI 1700862448
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 45 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for hand surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $2,516.
Across 45 payments — averaging $33.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$334
- Acumed LLC$313
- Smith+Nephew$129
- Amgen$118
- Zimmer Biomet$97
- Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.$66
- plus $441 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,497100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 8 | $334 |
| Acumed LLC | 4 | $313 |
| Smith+Nephew | 6 | $129 |
| Amgen | 8 | $118 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $97 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Treace Medical Concepts, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| Bioventus LLC | 3 | $63 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 1 | $50 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $36 |
| Anika Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $35 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Vertex | 1 | $20 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Saluda Medical Americas, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Nalu Medical, 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.
How this compares
$1,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 29 hand surgery 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Diclofenac Sodium | 102 | $2,186 |
| Celecoxib | 198 | $2,087 |
| Ibuprofen | 129 | $953 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 139 | $652 |
| Sulindac | 50 | $651 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 77 | $515 |
| Meloxicam | 139 | $409 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 40 | $242 |
| Gabapentin | 47 | $241 |
| Minocycline Hcl | 18 | $206 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 55 | $183 |
| Nabumetone | 22 | $169 |
| Naproxen | 13 | $151 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 18 | $92 |
| Allopurinol | 14 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other hand surgery in Kenner
- Leslie SiscoNew Orleans$169K
- Mark DodsonAlexandria$28K
- Ryan BlissBaton Rouge$11K
- Diego MirandaBossier City$10K
- Nicholas PappasMetairie$9K
- Cameron BestMonroe$8K
- Brandon DonnellyMetairie$8K
- Sagar ShahLafayette$7K
- Brent McCartyCovington$7K
- Ross DunbarNew Orleans$6K
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.