Has Gabriel Tender, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $434,432 in general payments to Gabriel Tender, MD across 596 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Gabriel Tender, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Gabriel Tender, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Gabriel Tender, MD

Neurological Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1609897628

Payments from drug & device makers

$434,432in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 596 payments — averaging $728.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$181K
Medacta USA, Inc.$119K
Globus Medical$33K
Si-bone, Inc.$22K
Stryker$13K
Corelink, LLC$12K
plus $55K from 53 others

What the payments were for

Royalty or licence$42,19417%
Consulting fees$111,37044%
Speaking & faculty fees$31,57512%
Travel & lodging$30,45512%
Food & beverage$38,67515%
Entertainment$3580%

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
Providence Medical Technology, Inc.	34	$181,108
Medacta USA, Inc.	68	$119,065
Globus Medical(2 entities)	64	$33,035
Si-bone, Inc.	63	$22,218
Stryker	44	$12,691
Corelink, LLC	25	$11,761
Zavation Medical Products, LLC	12	$7,816
Terumo BCT, Inc.	8	$5,653
Mirus, LLC	5	$5,296
Cerapedics Inc.	25	$5,265
Spinal Elements, Inc.	38	$3,653
Zentech Inc.	1	$3,000
Clariance, Inc.	14	$2,623
Zimvie Inc.	11	$2,115
Integrity Implants Inc.	11	$1,787
Osteocentric Technologies, Inc.	12	$1,627
Integrity Implants Inc. Dba Accelus	8	$1,509
Medtronic(2 entities)	21	$1,213
ALON Medical Technology	8	$1,125
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	10	$926
4web, Inc.	10	$815
CTL Medical Corporation	13	$759
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	6	$730
Alphatec Spine, Inc	7	$677
Carbofix Spine Inc	6	$617
Innovasis Inc	4	$595
Tulavi Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$556
Nexxt Spine LLC	4	$448
Xtant Medical Inc	3	$416
Republic Spine	2	$405
Neo Spine USA, Inc.	4	$370
Johnson & Johnson	10	$370
Kuros Biosciences USA, Inc	1	$365
Wenzel Spine, Inc.	2	$346
Bioventus LLC	5	$341
Seaspine Orthopedics Corporation	3	$312
Zimmer Biomet	4	$305
Sanara Medtech Inc.	2	$289
Arthrex	2	$268
Medicrea USA, Corp.	2	$180
Acuity Surgical Devices, LLC	1	$161
Genesys Orthopedics Systems, L.L.C.	1	$148
Boston Scientific	1	$145
Centinel Spine, LLC	1	$144
Derma Sciences, Inc.	1	$136
Augmedics Inc.	1	$125
Depuy Synthes Products, Inc.	1	$122
Baxter Healthcare	2	$121
Longeviti Neuro Solutions Inc	1	$116
Biocomposites Inc	1	$113
Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc.	2	$106
Ossdsign USA Incorporated	1	$103
Novapproach Spine, LLC	1	$89
Trackx Technology, Inc.	1	$55
Spineart USA Inc	1	$28
Smith+Nephew	1	$21
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$18
Trilliant Surgical LLC.	1	$18
AbbVie	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.

MECTA-C$42,262
MECTALIF$22,146
MYSPINE$16,534
FORTIFY$14,991
IMPERIAL$14,625
iFuse Implant$9,319
Mecta-C Cervical Cages$8,932
LATERAL ACCESS SPINAL SYSTEM$7,000
MUST$5,445
EUROPA Pedicle Screw System$5,281
CYGNUS Anterior Cervical Plate$5,281
HARVEST BMAC$5,085
I-FACTOR PEPTIDE ENHANCED BONE GRAFT$4,620
CAVUX Cervical Cage$3,600
DTRAX Spinal System$3,600
ALLY Bone Screw$3,600
BIOLOGIX Allograft Bone$3,600
IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$3,500
Medical Device$2,051
Mobi-C$1,789

How this compares

$434,432 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 116 neurological surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$26,593

Medicare patients

Services billed

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.

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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.

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