Tracee Short
Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1780813311
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.9%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by OVIK Health, LLC at 31.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $43,187 and has fallen 63.1% since, to $15,928 in 2025. Among 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 116 payments — averaging $933.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- OVIK Health, LLC$34K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$25K
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$25K
- Vericel Corporation$13K
- Medline Industries LP$5K
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$2K
- plus $5K from 14 others
Across 24 payments — averaging $5142.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$75K
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$48K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$20,15019%
- Speaking & faculty fees$46,44543%
- Travel & lodging$28,24326%
- Food & beverage$7,6967%
- Education$170%
- Charitable contribution$5,6885%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| OVIK Health, LLC | 17 | $34,245 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 9 | $25,256 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 20 | $24,640 |
| Vericel Corporation | 7 | $12,801 |
| Medline Industries LP | 6 | $4,902 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 14 | $1,644 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 10 | $1,375 |
| Stryker | 3 | $767 |
| Kerecis Limited | 5 | $677 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 2 | $585 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 4 | $330 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 4 | $303 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $150 |
| Access Pro Medical, LLC | 1 | $121 |
| Polymedics Innovations Inc. | 4 | $112 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $97 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $87 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- ASSIST SILVER$33,846
- STRATAGRAFT$15,677
- Epicel$10,717
- Dermatology and Wound Care$4,862
- INTEGRA$2,886
- NexoBrid$2,008
- PRIMATRIX$1,373
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$1,248
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$667
- 1688$588
- RECELL$552
- Kerecis Omega3 Wound$353
- INTEGRA WOUND MATRIX (IWM)$261
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$222
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$222
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$163
- AMNIOEXCEL$150
- TCC-EZ$150
- OMNIGRAFT$150
- INTEGRA MESHED BILAYER WOUND MATRIX$136
How this compares
$108,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 surgery providers in Louisiana.
Other surgery in Baton Rouge
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Karl LeblancBaton Rouge$55K
- Karalyn BentleyBaton Rouge$42K
- Asif TalukderBaton Rouge$42K
- Joseph GriffinBaton Rouge$33K
- Mohammad Al EfishatBaton Rouge$22K
- Danielle CobbBaton Rouge$18K
- Andrew HargroderBaton Rouge$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.