Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

NIELS J LINSCHOTEN

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Orthopaedic Surgery

NPI
1407804107
CMS profile
886907
Location
BATON ROUGE, LA

General Payments · PY2018–2024

$8,601.72

  • Reported across 145 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$378.14

7 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $314.41 6
Travel and Lodging $63.73 1

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Stryker Corporation $285.97 3
Innovation Technologies Inc $31.12 1
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. $24.47 1
DAVOL INC. $19.38 1
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $17.20 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $5,116.85 55
PY2019 $820.56 21
PY2020 $455.40 14
PY2021 $560.40 20
PY2022 $533.49 13
PY2023 $736.88 15
PY2024 $378.14 7

Payment records · PY2024 (7)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 201820192020202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Davol Inc. $19.38 02/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1127655160 CMS
Heron Therapeutics, Inc. $24.47 01/31/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1147247492 CMS
Innovation Technologies Inc $31.12 08/28/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1130822094 CMS
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $17.20 09/25/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151255280 CMS
Stryker Corporation $72.93 02/21/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119896143 CMS
Stryker Corporation $149.31 11/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119896145 CMS
Stryker Corporation $63.73 11/09/2024 Travel and Lodging Undisputed 01/23/2026 1119896147 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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