Emily Estopinal, PA
Physician Assistant · New Orleans, LANPI 1588299978
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (58.6%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 64.4% of it on its own, with 16 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,359 and has fallen 96.3% since, to $88 in 2025. Among physician assistant 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 80 payments — averaging $74.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Pfizer$1K
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$160
- Exact Sciences$133
- Evofem Biosciences, Inc.$89
- Applied Medical Resources Corporation$82
- plus $300 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,08018%
- Travel & lodging$3,48959%
- Food & beverage$1,28522%
- Education$1002%
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 | 32 | $3,834 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $1,356 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $160 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $133 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 9 | $89 |
| Applied Medical Resources Corporation | 1 | $82 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 4 | $66 |
| Merck | 2 | $34 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Organon | 1 | $27 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Medicem Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $15 |
| Bayer | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$3,165
- MYFEMBREE$1,080
- Veozah$121
- DAVINCI XI$100
How this compares
$5,955 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,246 physician assistant 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Estradiol | 45 | $1,972 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 18 | $608 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 16 | $197 |
| Metronidazole | 16 | $145 |
| Fluconazole | 15 | $63 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in New Orleans
- Jefferson OberleNew Orleans$66K
- Jennifer ScheuermannNew Orleans$56K
- Elizabeth ClementNew Orleans$35K
- David GsellNew Orleans$26K
- Nakia BrooksNew Orleans$25K
- Sydney TsenNew Orleans$16K
- Stephanie EscheteNew Orleans$9K
- Rija AmirNew Orleans$7K
- Shelly EsnardBaton Rouge$141K
- Claire DarreJefferson$50K
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.