Todd Fountain, MD
Neurological Surgery · Lafayette, LANPI 1013995901
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $5,272 of the $5,924 with a category attached, or 89.0%. Globus Medical accounts for 95.8% of it on its own, with 2 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,329, 3.7 times the $636 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for neurological surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $5,328.
Across 32 payments — averaging $185.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$6K
- Boston Scientific$129
- Xtant Medical Inc$121
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,27289%
- Food & beverage$65211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical | 30 | $5,675 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $129 |
| Xtant Medical Inc | 1 | $121 |
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.
- ELSA$1,971
- Excelsius Robotics System$1,690
- Sable$856
- ELSA ATP$543
How this compares
$5,924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 116 neurological 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 103 | $588 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 25 | $467 |
| Pregabalin | 20 | $308 |
| Methocarbamol | 19 | $222 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 14 | $73 |
| Cyclobenzaprine Hcl | 11 | $58 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 13 | $52 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in Lafayette
- Jason CormierLafayette$178K
- Jayme TrahanLafayette$68K
- Ahmad ElakilLafayette$12K
- Saul Morales ValeroLafayette$9K
- Alan AppleyLafayette$8K
- Ilyas MunshiLafayette$5K
- Anthony SinShreveport$1.5M
- Sebastian KogaHammond$720K
- Eric OberlanderBaton Rouge$660K
- Najeeb ThomasMetairie$440K
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.