Danielle Cobb, MD
Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1982024592
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (43.7%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 28.3% of the total. Among 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 136 payments — averaging $135.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Davol Inc.$3K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$3K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$2K
- TAS Medical, Inc.$2K
- Kerecis Limited$669
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0005%
- Travel & lodging$6,83637%
- Food & beverage$8,03144%
- Education$2,50014%
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 | 31 | $5,206 |
| Davol Inc. | 14 | $3,452 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 18 | $3,401 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 17 | $2,032 |
| TAS Medical, Inc. | 10 | $1,522 |
| Kerecis Limited | 6 | $669 |
| Medtronic | 9 | $559 |
| BD | 6 | $479 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $190 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 1 | $151 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $139 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $128 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $123 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $48 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $36 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $35 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Merck | 1 | $19 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $14 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 1 | $13 |
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.
- OviTex 2S$2,702
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,295
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$1,640
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$1,458
- Phasix Mesh$1,125
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$1,038
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$245
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$171
- CellerateRx$151
- AIRSEAL$123
- Zynrelef$122
- Signia$120
- Sonicision$109
- GORE SYNECOR Preperitoneal Biomaterial$106
- Echelon Flex$100
How this compares
$18,367 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 381 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.
Other surgery in Baton Rouge
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
- Karl LeblancBaton Rouge$55K
- Karalyn BentleyBaton Rouge$42K
- Asif TalukderBaton Rouge$42K
- Joseph GriffinBaton Rouge$33K
- Mohammad Al EfishatBaton Rouge$22K
- Andrew HargroderBaton Rouge$12K
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.