Stephen Cox, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1164427829
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (53.0%), travel and lodging and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,046 and has fallen 60.3% since, to $2,399 in 2025.
Across 143 payments — averaging $78.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$10K
- Smith+Nephew$362
- Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.$211
- Convatec Inc.$104
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$85
- Organogenesis Inc.$74
- plus $397 from 11 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $8281.25 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Stryker$50K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,89744%
- Food & beverage$5,93253%
- Gifts$3613%
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(2 entities) | 91 | $9,957 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $362 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 9 | $211 |
| Convatec Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $85 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $63 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 3 | $56 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $36 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Baudax Bio Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Axogen | 1 | $25 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $18 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, 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.
- PROPHECY$2,135
- INFINITY$1,874
- INBONE$1,103
- PROstep$857
- INFINITY ADAPTIS$420
- SALVATION$256
- AUGMENT INJECTABLE$252
- NA$136
- N/A$136
- INTEllIO LINK WEREWOLF$136
- BIOskin$115
- ALLOPURE$108
- CHARLOTTE$105
How this compares
$11,190 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 286 orthopaedic 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 83 | $605 |
| Prednisone | 167 | $473 |
| Levofloxacin | 24 | $264 |
| Meloxicam | 65 | $218 |
| Cephalexin | 30 | $201 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 19 | $199 |
| Gabapentin | 31 | $124 |
| Promethazine Hcl | 46 | $101 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 14 | $92 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 44 | $86 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Shreveport
- Pierce NunleyShreveport$1.8M
- Steven AtchisonShreveport$170K
- Timothy TalbertShreveport$68K
- Mark CallananShreveport$39K
- Michael NammourShreveport$38K
- Eubulus KerrShreveport$33K
- Massimo MorandiShreveport$28K
- John GoogeShreveport$20K
- Christopher CaldwellShreveport$17K
- Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3M
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.