Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery in Louisiana
20 providers, $145,137 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,620.
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 pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Louisiana
Across 1 pediatric orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $33,097 in total — an average of $33,097 each, of which $32,381 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
- 1Brad CulottaBaton Rouge$81,548
- 2Timothy SkalakNew Orleans$15,100
- 3John FaustBaton Rouge$13,005
- 4Ryan FarmerLafayette$8,277
- 5James BennettNew Orleans$7,131
- 6Brielle PlostNew Orleans$4,928
- 7Michael HeffernanNew Orleans$4,104
- 8Vinitha ShenavaNew Orleans$2,578
- 9Sean WaldronNew Orleans$2,520
- 10Tina CreekmoreBaton Rouge$1,620
- 11Joseph GonzalesNew Orleans$1,222
- 12Janay McKieShreveport$681
- 13Kenneth PowellShreveport$638
- 14McCall McDanielCovington$592
- 15Sharon MayberryBaton Rouge$445
- 16John FoxShreveport$214
- 17Gerard WilliamsShreveport$178
- 18David SteinerLeesville$176
- 19Gabriel DersamLafayette$131
- 20James GutheilLafayette$49