Gabriel Tender, MD
Neurological Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1609897628
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.7%), royalties or licence payments and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 59 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medacta USA, Inc. at 46.8% of the total. Among neurological 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 576 payments — averaging $442.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medacta USA, Inc.$119K
- Globus Medical$33K
- Si-bone, Inc.$16K
- Stryker$13K
- Corelink, LLC$12K
- Zavation Medical Products, LLC$8K
- plus $54K from 53 others
Across 20 payments — averaging $8990.19 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.
- Providence Medical Technology, Inc.$174K
- Si-bone, Inc.$6K
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.
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
$254,628 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 116 neurological 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 neurological surgery in New Orleans
- Christopher MaulucciNew Orleans$134K
- Kendrick JohnsonNew Orleans$82K
- Tyler ScullenNew Orleans$51K
- Aaron DumontNew Orleans$44K
- Sassan KeshavarziNew Orleans$34K
- Lora KahnNew Orleans$24K
- Miguel MelgarNew Orleans$20K
- Johnny DelashawNew Orleans$19K
- Adam PodetNew Orleans$15K
- Derrick UmanskyNew Orleans$13K
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.