Charles Whitlow, MD
Colon & Rectal Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1013941368
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.1%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Boston Scientific accounts for 63.8% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,384 and has fallen 95.2% since, to $403 in 2025. Among colon & rectal surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 66 payments — averaging $330.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$14K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$4K
- Johnson & Johnson$949
- Biom'up France SAS$725
- Biom'up SA$622
- Davol Inc.$284
- plus $2K from 12 others
Across 17 payments — averaging $4423.50 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$52K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$24K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,63821%
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,22556%
- Food & beverage$4,93823%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 17 | $13,907 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $3,788 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $949 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 7 | $725 |
| Biom'up SA | 8 | $622 |
| Davol Inc. | 4 | $284 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 1 | $243 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $232 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $187 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 2 | $162 |
| Guard Medical Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| Gilead | 1 | $125 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $116 |
| Prescient Surgical | 1 | $114 |
| Vertex | 1 | $87 |
| Stryker | 1 | $52 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $33 |
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.
- GENERAL - METAL STENTS - G.I.$5,000
- RESOLUTION CLIP$4,675
- CONTOUR$3,788
- Echelon Flex$3,788
- Echelon Circular$3,788
- Enseal X1$3,788
- WALLFLEX$3,400
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$697
- HemoBlast Bellows$553
- PENTAX Medical$485
- HEMOBLAST$359
- INSPIRA$243
- C2 CryoBalloon Focal Controller$243
- C2 Cryoballoon$243
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$232
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$232
- Situate$146
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$145
- Harmonic$143
- Enseal$143
How this compares
$21,800 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 39 colon & rectal 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 45 | $3,039 |
| Gavilyte-CPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 39 | $672 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 33 | $527 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other colon & rectal surgery in New Orleans
- Jennifer ParuchNew Orleans$63K
- Elyse Bevier-RawlsNew Orleans$18K
- Danielle KayNew Orleans$16K
- William JohnstonNew Orleans$15K
- Valentine NfonsamNew Orleans$15K
- Brian KannNew Orleans$10K
- Guy OrangioNew Orleans$4K
- Herschel VargasNew Orleans$2K
- Lindsey GadeNew Orleans$2K
- Danielle DooleyNew Orleans$2K
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.