Adam Podet, MD
Neurological Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1255793113
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,624 of the $14,587 with a category attached, or 66.0%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.2%. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,717 and has fallen 51.2% since, to $2,301 in 2025.
Across 148 payments — averaging $98.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$3K
- Globus Medical$2K
- Si-bone, Inc.$1K
- Corelink, LLC$1K
- Stryker$902
- Spinal Elements, Inc.$640
- plus $6K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,96334%
- Food & beverage$9,62466%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zavation Medical Products, LLC | 3 | $2,954 |
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 39 | $1,610 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 23 | $1,494 |
| Corelink, LLC | 7 | $1,369 |
| Stryker | 12 | $902 |
| Spinal Elements, Inc. | 7 | $640 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 3 | $636 |
| Medtronic | 12 | $600 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 4 | $568 |
| Integrity Implants Inc. | 4 | $564 |
| Arthrex | 5 | $493 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 5 | $370 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 2 | $355 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $236 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 2 | $233 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 1 | $165 |
| Microvention, Inc. | 3 | $162 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $137 |
| Medacta USA, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| CTL Medical Corporation | 1 | $131 |
| Terumo BCT, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $114 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $113 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $73 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
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.
- Medical Device$501
- iFuse Implant$433
- Trinity ELITE$329
- CREO$279
- Neuro Plating System$236
- CODMAN CERTAS$234
- CUSA CLARITY$234
- DURAGEN DURAL GRAFT MATRIX$234
- DURASEAL EXACT SPINAL SEALANT SYSTEM$234
- I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$233
- MAZOR X SYSTEM$172
- SURPASS EVOLVE$170
- Other - Miscellaneous$166
- ADHERUS AUTOSPRAY DURAL SEALANT$159
- UNIVERSAL NEURO 3$159
- DURAMATRIX$159
- NA$159
- Excelsius - GPS$159
- SPINE TRUSS SYSTEM$147
- BoneScalpel$137
How this compares
$14,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 18 | $236 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 16 | $223 |
| Gabapentin | 11 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other neurological surgery in New Orleans
- Gabriel TenderNew Orleans$255K
- Christopher MaulucciNew Orleans$134K
- Kendrick JohnsonNew Orleans$82K
- Tyler ScullenNew Orleans$51K
- Aaron DumontNew Orleans$44K
- Sassan KeshavarziNew Orleans$34K
- Lora KahnNew Orleans$24K
- Miguel MelgarNew Orleans$20K
- Johnny DelashawNew Orleans$19K
- Derrick UmanskyNew Orleans$13K
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.