Steven Jones, MD
Surgery · Metairie, LANPI 1245317734
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $934 of the $1,457 with a category attached, or 64.1%. Medtronic accounts for 68.4% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,155 and has fallen 87.9% since, to $140 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $1,529.
Across 27 payments — averaging $53.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$996
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$159
- Elucent Medical$102
- Amgen$34
- Bristol Myers Squibb$34
- Baxter Healthcare$31
- plus $102 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$93464%
- Food & beverage$52436%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 6 | $996 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 10 | $159 |
| Elucent Medical | 1 | $102 |
| Amgen | 2 | $34 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $34 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $31 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Cardinal Health 414 LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 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.
- PlasmaBlade$934
How this compares
$1,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 381 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 30 | $346 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 17 | $177 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Metairie
- Jules WaltersMetairie$41K
- Robert NormandMetairie$22K
- Brian CreelyMetairie$14K
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Joseph BuellNew Orleans$186K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Matias NautsLake Charles$112K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
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.