Kenneth Byrd
Obstetrics & Gynecology · New Orleans, LANPI 1235196122
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 109 payments — averaging $36.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- AbbVie$655
- Biom'up France SAS$459
- Biom'up SA$369
- Lupin Inc.$196
- Scynexis, Inc.$131
- plus $944 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$66617%
- Food & beverage$3,31183%
- Education$110%
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 | 8 | $1,233 |
| AbbVie | 23 | $655 |
| Biom'up France SAS | 4 | $459 |
| Biom'up SA | 4 | $369 |
| Lupin Inc. | 10 | $196 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 7 | $131 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $129 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $117 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $105 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 7 | $94 |
| Bayer | 5 | $80 |
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Merck | 3 | $43 |
| Organon | 2 | $38 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $33 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| LSI Solutions Inc | 1 | $28 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $13 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Duchesnay USA Incorporated | 1 | $12 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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$1,109
- HemoBlast Bellows$376
- HEMOBLAST$250
- Orilissa$125
- ORIAHNN$125
- SOLOSEC$122
- SYMPHION$117
How this compares
$3,988 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 608 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Louisiana.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in New Orleans
- Alison RodriguezNew Orleans$10.5M
- Earl PeeperNew Orleans$374K
- Veronica GillispieNew Orleans$237K
- George MorrisNew Orleans$34K
- Rajiv GalaNew Orleans$34K
- Janifer TropezNew Orleans$27K
- Roeland VanopijnenNew Orleans$19K
- Robin BoneNew Orleans$18K
- Diana DangNew Orleans$17K
- Jennifer BrunetNew Orleans$11K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.