Michael Cook, MD
Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1366563678
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (32.8%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Asensus Surgical, Inc. at 47.9% of the total. 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 304 payments — averaging $274.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$40K
- Intuitive Surgical$20K
- Medtronic$16K
- US Endoscopy$2K
- AbbVie$1K
- Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$1K
- plus $4K from 19 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $26,524 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.
- Asensus Surgical, Inc.$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$27,41333%
- Speaking & faculty fees$19,77524%
- Travel & lodging$14,95818%
- Food & beverage$11,38114%
- Education$10,00012%
- Gifts$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Asensus Surgical, Inc. | 80 | $40,027 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 79 | $19,617 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 46 | $16,277 |
| US Endoscopy | 1 | $1,500 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 51 | $1,382 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $1,188 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 17 | $1,151 |
| Distalmotion US | 2 | $497 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $263 |
| Boston Scientific | 4 | $222 |
| Covidien LP | 2 | $178 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $162 |
| BD | 1 | $147 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Cytyc Surgical Products, LLC | 1 | $142 |
| Virtual Incision Corporation | 1 | $140 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $116 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $84 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $50 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $20 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| 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.
- Senhance$35,843
- Da Vinci Surgical System$18,291
- Senhance Surgical Robotics System$9,226
- Senhance Manipulator Arm$7,776
- Senhance Cockpit$7,776
- Senhance Node$7,776
- LigaSure$2,755
- Signia$2,728
- TruClear$2,310
- Padlock Clip$1,500
- Zynrelef$1,125
- Echelon Flex$715
- DEXTER L6 ROBOT$497
- Harmonic$465
- Phasix Mesh$292
- Enseal$228
- CoolSeal Generator$142
- Mira!$140
- LINX Reflux Management System$127
- ECHELON FLEX Stapler$124
How this compares
$83,541 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $365 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in New Orleans
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- 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
- 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.