Steven Atchison, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1447242276
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $130,100 of the $169,820 with a category attached, or 76.6%. Stryker accounts for 85.8% of it on its own, with 21 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $45,831 and has fallen 70.9% since, to $13,327 in 2025. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 280 payments — averaging $606.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$146K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$14K
- Medtronic$9K
- Smith+Nephew$335
- AbbVie$141
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$125
- plus $698 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$130,10077%
- Speaking & faculty fees$13,7158%
- Travel & lodging$16,90210%
- Food & beverage$9,1045%
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 | 195 | $145,651 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 28 | $13,631 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 11 | $9,241 |
| Smith+Nephew | 7 | $335 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $141 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $125 |
| Curonix LLC | 2 | $107 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $94 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $64 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 2 | $63 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Fidia Pharma USA Inc. | 3 | $27 |
| Amgen | 2 | $26 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Axogen | 1 | $20 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- MAKO$138,105
- Zynrelef$13,503
- AQUAMANTYS$7,140
- TRIDENT$3,600
- TRIATHLON$515
- NA$136
- N/A$136
- INTEllIO LINK WEREWOLF$136
- IOVERA SYSTEM$125
- PlasmaBlade$108
How this compares
$169,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daptomycin | 14 | $20,132 |
| Tranexamic Acid | 13 | $337 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $185 |
| Dexamethasone | 13 | $94 |
| Sodium Chloride0.9 % Sodium Chloride | 13 | $55 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Shreveport
- Pierce NunleyShreveport$1.8M
- 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
- Vinod DasaKenner$1.9M
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.