Christopher Trahan, MD
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1952514382
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 31 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 27.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $298 and has fallen 68.0% since, to $95 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $2,109.
Across 31 payments — averaging $27.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$237
- Kerecis Limited$182
- Baxter Healthcare$165
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$98
- Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated$65
- Innovation Technologies Inc$28
- plus $87 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$862100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $237 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $182 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $165 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $65 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $24 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 45 plastic and reconstructive surgery 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 plastic and reconstructive surgery in New Orleans
- Omer KaymakcalanNew Orleans$10K
- Suma MaddoxNew Orleans$6K
- William AukermanNew Orleans$6K
- Christopher SmithNew Orleans$5K
- Vidhur SohiniNew Orleans$5K
- Christopher BabycosNew Orleans$5K
- Daniel YooNew Orleans$4K
- Michael MosesNew Orleans$4K
- Katherine ChiassonNew Orleans$3K
- Heath CharvetNew Orleans$3K
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.