Lee Cummings, MD
Transplant Surgery · Metairie, LANPI 1548416969
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $10,000 of the $12,269 with a category attached, or 81.5%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 88.2% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $6,000 and has fallen 90.3% since, to $582 in 2025.
Across 41 payments — averaging $299.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$11K
- Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$425
- Dilon Technologies, Inc.$328
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$146
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$127
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$104
- plus $315 from 8 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $753.07 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.
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$7K
- Shire North American Group Inc$4K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4053%
- Food & beverage$1,86415%
- Education$10,00082%
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 | 18 | $10,823 |
| Veloxis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $425 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $328 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $146 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $127 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 5 | $104 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $98 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $63 |
| Xvivo Perfusion Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Organox Ltd | 1 | $18 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$10,386
- Envarsus$370
- HemoBlast Bellows$263
- THYMOGLOBULIN$146
How this compares
Too few transplant surgery providers in Louisianato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 transplant surgery in Metairie
- Anil ParameshMetairie$21K
- Mary KillackeyMetairie$812
- Adarsh VijayNew Orleans$8K
- Dennis Sonnier JrNew Orleans$7K
- Trine EngebretsenNew Orleans$4K
- Justin BarrNew Orleans$3K
- John SealNew Orleans$2K
- Humberto BohorquezNew Orleans$2K
- Emily BugeaudNew Orleans$2K
- Hosein Shokouh-AmiriShreveport$2K
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.