Joshua Parks, MD
Surgery · Gretna, LANPI 1740470061
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,152 of the $2,624 with a category attached, or 82.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 34.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $986 and has fallen 87.6% since, to $122 in 2025.
Across 37 payments — averaging $70.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$902
- Biom'up France SAS$461
- Johnson & Johnson$333
- Kerecis Limited$255
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$145
- Biom'up SA$138
- plus $390 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$30912%
- Food & beverage$2,15282%
- Education$1636%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 | 11 | $902 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 6 | $461 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $333 |
| Kerecis Limited | 2 | $255 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Biom'up SA | 2 | $138 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $115 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $86 |
| Vioptix Inc | 1 | $53 |
| Covidien LP | 1 | $40 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Merck | 1 | $16 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 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.
How this compares
$2,624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 39 | $666 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 73 | $440 |
| Peg-3350 And ElectrolytesPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 18 | $306 |
| Hydrocortisone | 11 | $155 |
| Neomycin Sulfate | 14 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Gretna
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Carlos GalvaniNew Orleans$352K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Joseph BuellNew Orleans$186K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Matias NautsLake Charles$112K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
- Kamel BraktaShreveport$95K
- Kerry ThibodeauxOpelousas$84K
- Michael CookNew Orleans$84K
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.