Christopher Beck, MD
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · New Orleans, LANPI 1982830063
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,137 of the $3,137 with a category attached, or 68.1%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.6%. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,158, 2.2 times the $515 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for vascular & interventional radiology clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $3,137.
Across 25 payments — averaging $125.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$740
- Guerbet LLC$500
- Inari Medical, Inc.$349
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$264
- Cook Medical LLC$252
- Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.$223
- plus $808 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$50016%
- Grants$50016%
- Food & beverage$2,13768%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $740 |
| Guerbet LLC | 1 | $500 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $349 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $264 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 3 | $252 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $223 |
| Biocompatibles, Inc. | 1 | $194 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $142 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $141 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Agfa Healthcare Corporation | 1 | $105 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
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.
- KYPHON EXPRESS II KYPHOPAK TRAY$500
- Lipiodol$500
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$349
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$349
- THERASPHERE-BIO$194
- TRINAV INFUSION SYSTEM$154
- VIATORR TIPS Endoprosthesis w/ Controlled Expansion$151
- SIR-Spheres Microspheres$142
- TheraSphere Y90 Glass Microspheres 10 GBq$141
- Cardiva VASCADE 6/7F VCS$132
- Cook Medical Liver Access$122
- CONCERTOTM$117
- VIABAHN Endoprosthesis with PROPATEN Bioactive Surface$114
How this compares
$3,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 42 vascular & interventional radiology providers in Louisiana.
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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.
Other vascular & interventional radiology in New Orleans
- Juan GimenezNew Orleans$564K
- Tyler SandowNew Orleans$485K
- Richard Marshall JrNew Orleans$216K
- David KirschNew Orleans$42K
- Dan LaneyNew Orleans$10K
- James MurrayNew Orleans$7K
- Brianna OliverNew Orleans$7K
- Ahmad MubarakNew Orleans$6K
- Patrick GilbertNew Orleans$6K
- Bruce BordleeNew Orleans$4K
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.