Has Simon Finger, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,086 in general payments to Simon Finger, MD across 128 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 Simon Finger, 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 Simon Finger, 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.

Simon Finger, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Slidell, LANPI 1548444904

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.1% of the total across 128 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Stryker accounts for 84.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for orthopaedic surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $3,274.

$3,086in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 128 payments — averaging $24.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$3K
ALON Medical Technology$86
Johnson & Johnson$71
Davol Inc.$70
Smith+Nephew$64
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$52
plus $142 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,02898%
Education$582%

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	107	$2,601
ALON Medical Technology	2	$86
Johnson & Johnson	3	$71
Davol Inc.	3	$70
Smith+Nephew	2	$64
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	4	$52
Biom'up France SAS	1	$46
Convatec Inc.	1	$21
Bioventus LLC	1	$20
KCI USA, Inc.	1	$17
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$17
Vertex	1	$14
Microport Orthopedics Inc	1	$6

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.

AEQUALIS PERFORM$139
TRIATHLON$106

How this compares

$3,086 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$192,574

Medicare patients

451

Services billed

1,934

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
Tramadol Hcl ErTramadol Hcl	11	$989
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	40	$243
Meloxicam	42	$212
Methylprednisolone	36	$211
Celecoxib	17	$208
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	16	$113
Hydromorphone Hcl	22	$93
Gabapentin	17	$92
Ibuprofen	11	$85
Tramadol Hcl	22	$59

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.