John Paige, MD
Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1194747980
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $5,587 of the $9,124 with a category attached, or 61.2%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 85.8% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $4,878 and has fallen 93.0% since, to $343 in 2025.
Across 40 payments — averaging $228.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$8K
- Davol Inc.$322
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$198
- AbbVie$194
- Innovation Technologies Inc$133
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$97
- plus $351 from 9 others
Across 2 payments — averaging $7936.34 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.
- Acell, Inc.$16K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,07623%
- Food & beverage$1,46116%
- Education$5,58761%
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 | 19 | $7,828 |
| Davol Inc. | 3 | $322 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $198 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $194 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $97 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $89 |
| BD | 1 | $87 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $36 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $32 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $18 |
| KCI USA, 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.
How this compares
$9,124 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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
- Ian HodgdonNew Orleans$38K
- Shauna LevyNew Orleans$33K
- Adwoa Opoku-BoatengNew Orleans$30K
- Ari CohenNew Orleans$28K
- Mohamed-Aly BakeerNew Orleans$27K
- William KethmanNew Orleans$27K
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.