Ian Hodgdon, MD
Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1245436294
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (33.8%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 31 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 59.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $14,919 and has fallen 79.6% since, to $3,041 in 2025. 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 241 payments — averaging $159.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$23K
- US Endoscopy$5K
- AbbVie$4K
- TELA Bio, Inc.$1K
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$1K
- Davol Inc.$855
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,00013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$8,50022%
- Travel & lodging$2,9828%
- Food & beverage$8,93423%
- Education$13,00034%
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 | $22,810 |
| US Endoscopy | 4 | $5,000 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 130 | $4,073 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 14 | $1,467 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 8 | $1,090 |
| Davol Inc. | 11 | $855 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $742 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 6 | $484 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $225 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $198 |
| Smith+Nephew | 4 | $174 |
| Monaghan Medical Corporation | 1 | $164 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $142 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $131 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $97 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $91 |
| Stryker | 1 | $87 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| BD | 2 | $53 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Leica Microsystems Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$22,333
- Padlock Clip$1,500
- Ovitex$964
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$942
- Restrata Wound Matrix$697
- Phasix Mesh$409
- STRATTICE RECONSTRUCTIVE TISSUE MATRIX BPS$391
- INTEGRA$341
- AeroEclipse$164
- Irrisept$133
- Novosorb BTM$131
- Versajet$127
- Zynrelef$122
- OviTex Reinforced Bioscaffold With Permanent Polymer (OviTex)$119
- Signia$116
- STRATTICE$115
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$114
- PRIMATRIX$114
- FLOSEAL$113
- TISSEEL$110
How this compares
$38,416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 381 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 surgery in New Orleans
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Joseph BuellNew Orleans$186K
- Michael CookNew Orleans$84K
- Douglas SlakeyNew Orleans$81K
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.