Has Carlos Galvani, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $352,066 in general payments to Carlos Galvani, MD across 489 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Carlos Galvani, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Carlos Galvani, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Carlos Galvani, MD

Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1003916883

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.8%), education and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 50.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $88,576 and has fallen 88.6% since, to $10,102 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.

$352,066in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 489 payments — averaging $719.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Intuitive Surgical$178K
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$103K
Davol Inc.$58K
Covidien LP$6K
Medtronic$5K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
plus $971 from 12 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$74,63021%
Speaking & faculty fees$143,52541%
Travel & lodging$34,42910%
Food & beverage$19,7006%
Education$79,76923%
Gifts$140%

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
Intuitive Surgical	257	$178,165
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.	123	$102,947
Davol Inc.	44	$57,816
Covidien LP	10	$6,158
Medtronic	26	$4,978
Johnson & Johnson	12	$1,032
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	4	$200
Enterra Medical, Inc.	1	$153
C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries	1	$149
Philips North America LLC	1	$149
Conmed Corporation	2	$89
Olympus America Inc.	1	$70
Apollo Endosurgery US Inc	1	$49
TAS Medical, Inc.	2	$48
Intra-sana Laboratories	1	$25
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$16
TELA Bio, Inc.	1	$12
Acell, Inc.	1	$11

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.

Da Vinci Surgical System$152,070
GORE SEAMGUARD Bioabsorbable Staple Line Reinforce$40,233
PHASIX$32,847
DA VINCI SP$22,550
SEAMGUARD Staple Line Reinforcement$21,514
GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$14,427
GORE BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$14,160
GORE MYCROMESH Biomaterial$10,620
BIO-A Tissue Reinforcement$10,354
GORE ENFORM Biomaterial$8,315
SEAMGUARD$4,127
Signia$3,287
GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$2,950
Product in Development$2,075
LigaSure$477
Harmonic$472
Echelon Flex$472
ECHELON FLEX Stapler$247
SYNECOR Biomaterial$150
(6574) Coronary Other$149

How this compares

$352,066 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$13,793

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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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.

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