Douglas Slakey
Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1134213481
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $62,560 of the $81,133 with a category attached, or 77.1%. AbbVie accounts for 85.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $56,194 and has fallen 93.1% since, to $3,891 in 2022. 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.
Across 100 payments — averaging $811.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$70K
- Covidien LP$7K
- Merck$4K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$131
- Johnson & Johnson$33
- Acell, Inc.$26
- plus $13 from 1 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $118,324 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.
- AstraZeneca$237K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$9,78012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$62,56077%
- Travel & lodging$6,4598%
- Food & beverage$2,3173%
- Education$160%
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 | 79 | $69,698 |
| Covidien LP | 10 | $7,358 |
| Merck | 7 | $3,874 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $33 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- Creon$31,020
- ProGrip$4,620
- PROPATEN Vascular Graft$131
How this compares
$81,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 surgery providers in Louisiana.
Other surgery in New Orleans
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Joseph BuellNew Orleans$186K
- Michael CookNew Orleans$84K
- Ian HodgdonNew Orleans$38K
- Shauna LevyNew Orleans$33K
- Adwoa Opoku-BoatengNew Orleans$30K
- Ari CohenNew Orleans$28K
- Mohamed-Aly BakeerNew Orleans$27K
- William KethmanNew Orleans$27K
- Jacquelyn TurnerNew Orleans$14K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.