Has Timothy Talbert, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $68,367 in general payments to Timothy Talbert, MD across 348 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 Timothy Talbert, MD 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 Timothy Talbert, MD 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.

Timothy Talbert, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · Shreveport, LANPI 1821048463

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (40.7%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Stryker accounts for 97.4% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among orthopaedic surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$68,367in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 348 payments — averaging $196.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$67K
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.$692
Zimmer Biomet$218
Arthrex$210
Smith+Nephew$191
Davol Inc.$76
plus $369 from 14 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$27,80041%
Travel & lodging$23,79835%
Food & beverage$16,74524%
Other$250%

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	311	$66,612
Midsouth Orthopedics Inc.	2	$692
Zimmer Biomet	2	$218
Arthrex	5	$210
Smith+Nephew	8	$191
Davol Inc.	2	$76
Sanara Medtech Inc.	3	$48
Curonix LLC	1	$46
Innovation Technologies Inc	2	$41
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$38
Johnson & Johnson	1	$36
Abbott	2	$34
Welch Allyn	1	$25
Vertex	1	$20
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$17
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	1	$14
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14
Amgen	1	$13
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$12
Pacira Therapeutics, 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.

How this compares

$68,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$350,105

Medicare patients

461

Services billed

6,679

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
EliquisApixaban	12	$6,389
Methocarbamol	156	$737
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	69	$507
Methylprednisolone	75	$494
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	42	$460
Gabapentin	100	$449
Tramadol Hcl	134	$418
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl	43	$232
Celecoxib	19	$223
Meloxicam	78	$184
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	38	$157
Amoxicillin	30	$50

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other orthopaedic surgery in Shreveport

Pierce NunleyShreveport$1.8M
Steven AtchisonShreveport$170K
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

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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.

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