Has Stephen Honeycutt, PA received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,165 in general payments to Stephen Honeycutt, PA across 22 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 Stephen Honeycutt, PA 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 Stephen Honeycutt, PA 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.

Stephen Honeycutt, PA

Surgical · Slidell, LANPI 1275560849

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 22 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 37.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $501 and has fallen 69.1% since, to $155 in 2025.

$1,165in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $52.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$433
Edwards Lifesciences$172
Novo Nordisk$122
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$122
Gilead$113
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$85
plus $119 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,165100%

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	12	$433
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$172
Novo Nordisk	1	$122
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$122
Gilead	1	$113
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$85
Johnson & Johnson	1	$38
Medtronic	1	$27
Convatec Inc.	1	$21
Globus Medical	1	$19
Vertex	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.

Edwards SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart Valve$172
Ozempic$122
UPTRAVI$122
OPSUMIT$122
Epclusa$113

How this compares

$1,165 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 130 surgical providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$22,887

Medicare patients

147

Services billed

2,544

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	449	$3,217
Celecoxib	179	$2,240
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	269	$1,607
Gabapentin	189	$1,261
Diclofenac Sodium	18	$615
Diclofenac Potassium	26	$513
Meloxicam	203	$440
Ibuprofen	51	$400
Tramadol Hcl	145	$371
Pregabalin	20	$337
Ondansetron Hcl	53	$177
Methylprednisolone	20	$145
Naproxen	12	$89
Tizanidine Hcl	13	$83
Doxycycline Hyclate	12	$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.