Michael Cotugno
Emergency Medicine · New Iberia, LANPI 1730274200
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,078 of the $1,435 with a category attached, or 75.1%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck. Among emergency medicine 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 12 payments — averaging $119.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
Across 1,443 payments — averaging $11,617 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$12.8M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$1.1M
- Bavarian Nordic A/s$570K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$526K
- Merck$506K
- Seqirus USA Inc$483K
- plus $742K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,07875%
- Food & beverage$35725%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 12 | $1,435 |
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.
- V114$1,000
How this compares
$1,435 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 881 emergency medicine providers in Louisiana.
Other emergency medicine in New Iberia
- Fred WillisShreveport$427K
- Bryant BoydShreveport$83K
- Thomas ArnoldShreveport$48K
- Noah PoresNew Orleans$34K
- Granville MorseNew Orleans$32K
- Claude DantonioNew Orleans$26K
- Guy LefortCut Off$24K
- Mark DemanuelleDonaldsonville$22K
- Mace ScottBogalusa$17K
- Lisa FortNew Orleans$12K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.