Scott Montgomery, MD
Sports Medicine · New Orleans, LANPI 1275558421
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.2%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by ALON Medical Technology at 36.0% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,212, 6.4 times the $505 reported in 2019.
Across 52 payments — averaging $140.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- ALON Medical Technology$3K
- Stryker$1K
- Arthrex$1K
- Vericel Corporation$720
- Smith+Nephew$254
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$250
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,06528%
- Food & beverage$4,02755%
- Education$1,20016%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| ALON Medical Technology | 8 | $2,622 |
| Stryker | 12 | $1,117 |
| Arthrex | 7 | $1,055 |
| Vericel Corporation | 6 | $720 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $254 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $250 |
| Ossur Americas, Inc. | 3 | $230 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $225 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $163 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $141 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $130 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $113 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Hydrocision, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $23 |
| Sanara Medtech 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.
- MACI$633
- Zilretta$355
- BLUEPRINT PATIENT SPECIFIC INSTRUMENTATION$259
- ALPHAVENT$164
- BioBrace 23mm$163
- Durolane$141
- Unloader One X$133
- Bone Anchors with Arthroscopic Delivery System$127
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$127
- Iovera$125
- INSPACE$115
- Comp Reverse Shoulder E$113
- EXPAREL$101
How this compares
$7,292 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 82 sports medicine 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Meloxicam | 147 | $345 |
| Celecoxib | 16 | $162 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 13 | $70 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in New Orleans
- Felix SavoieNew Orleans$1.4M
- Misty SuriNew Orleans$1.2M
- Michael ObrienNew Orleans$391K
- Brian GodshawNew Orleans$69K
- Paul PhillipsNew Orleans$26K
- Wendell HeardNew Orleans$17K
- Russell RussoNew Orleans$16K
- Kelly HillNew Orleans$9K
- Brett CascioLake Charles$82K
- Andrew GottschalkJefferson$45K
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.