Shahrzad Talebinejad
Trauma Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1801181383
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,707 of the $2,712 with a category attached, or 62.9%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 55.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,442, more than ten times the $41 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for trauma surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $4,142.
Across 32 payments — averaging $84.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$2K
- Intuitive Surgical$823
- Sanara Medtech Inc.$135
- KCI USA, Inc.$76
- Teleflex LLC$31
- Kls-martin L.p.$27
- plus $112 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,70763%
- Food & beverage$1,00537%
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 | 17 | $1,507 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 4 | $823 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $27 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $20 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $13 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$785
- AdvantageRib$715
- RIBFIX TITAN$148
- RIBFIX BLU ADVANTAGE$142
- CellerateRx$135
- RibFix Blu$123
How this compares
$2,712 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 20 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Baton Rouge
- Jeffrey CarterNew Orleans$292K
- Patrick GreiffensteinNew Orleans$161K
- Alison SmithNew Orleans$29K
- Alan MarrNew Orleans$8K
- Lance StukeNew Orleans$7K
- Willard MosierLafayette$5K
- Forrest MooreShreveport$5K
- Michael FahrHammond$5K
- Navdeep SamraShreveport$5K
- Laura BloomNew Orleans$4K
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.