Steven Kautz, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery · Natchitoches, LANPI 1104913912
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.1%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 67.6% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 205 payments — averaging $80.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Stryker$11K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$2K
- Zimmer Biomet$239
- Davol Inc.$238
- Orthalign Inc$201
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,35039%
- Food & beverage$8,57352%
- Education$1,5429%
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 | 153 | $11,122 |
| Globus Medical | 4 | $1,851 |
| Midsouth Orthopedics Inc. | 6 | $1,671 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 3 | $239 |
| Davol Inc. | 2 | $238 |
| Orthalign Inc | 3 | $201 |
| Smith+Nephew | 9 | $154 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 1 | $115 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $96 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $92 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 2 | $89 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $77 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $74 |
| CPM Medical Consultants, LLC | 1 | $50 |
| Acumed LLC | 1 | $47 |
| Amgen | 2 | $42 |
| Axogen | 2 | $40 |
| Arthrex | 1 | $32 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $21 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Vericel Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 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.
- MAKO$6,105
- Joint Arthoplasty$1,800
- ICONIX$289
- INSPACE$282
- TRIATHLON$238
- ARISTA$203
- OMEGA$160
- ALPHAVENT$160
- ORTHALIGN PLUS$146
- FLEXIBLE GUIDE PIN (STRYKER ACL VERSITOMIC)$129
- ACCOLADE$125
- AEQUALIS ASCEND FLEX$125
- ROSA-Knee$123
- INSIGNIA$116
- Geminus$115
- Align$115
- IJS$115
- Implate$115
- AXSOS$113
How this compares
$16,464 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Piroxicam | 12 | $244 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 27 | $173 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 15 | $62 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other orthopaedic surgery in Natchitoches
- Justin DukeNatchitoches$17K
- Christopher HarrodBaton Rouge$3M
- Vinod DasaKenner$1.9M
- Pierce NunleyShreveport$1.8M
- Jorge IsazaBaton Rouge$1.2M
- Neil MakiThibodaux$620K
- Robert ZuraNew Orleans$597K
- Kevin McCarthyBaton Rouge$594K
- Timmothy RandellAlexandria$498K
- Fernando SanchezNew Orleans$484K
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.