Orthopaedic Trauma in Louisiana
13 providers, $686,560 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Louisiana
Across 11 orthopaedic trauma clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,083,376 in total — an average of $98,489 each, of which $97,091 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Paul GladdenNew Orleans$314,030
- 2Krishna VemulapalliNew Orleans$170,395
- 3Murphy MartinNew Orleans$85,450
- 4Vince LandsHammond$29,603
- 5Daniel MilesNew Orleans$26,584
- 6Avrey NovakNew Orleans$21,183
- 7James HlavacekLafayette$13,704
- 8Elliott NipperMonroe$9,515
- 9Peter KrauseKenner$4,955
- 10Brad ChauvinShreveport$4,144
- 11Olivia LeeNew Orleans$3,937
- 12James MautnerNew Orleans$2,813
- 13Francis JohnstonBaton Rouge$247