George Pankey
Infectious Disease · New Orleans, LANPI 1609822956
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $2,550 of the $2,564 with a category attached, or 99.4%. Abbott accounts for 99.4% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.
Across 2 payments — averaging $1282.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$3K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$14
Across 2 payments — averaging $424,435 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.
- T2 Biosystems, Inc.$849K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,55099%
- Food & beverage$141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 1 | $2,550 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ID NOW INSTRUMENT$2,550
How this compares
$2,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 105 infectious disease providers in Louisiana.
Other infectious disease in New Orleans
- Eric EhrensingNew Orleans$97K
- Meredith ClementNew Orleans$93K
- Rebecca LillisNew Orleans$60K
- Stephanie TaylorNew Orleans$25K
- Edwin SwiatloNew Orleans$22K
- Jonathan HandNew Orleans$10K
- Markalain DeryNew Orleans$9K
- Julia Garcia-DiazNew Orleans$8K
- Obinna NneduNew Orleans$3K
- Katherine BaumgartenNew Orleans$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.