Michael Fahr, MD
Trauma Surgery · Hammond, LANPI 1013134626
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (58.1%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 96.5% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,907 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $148 in 2025.
Across 23 payments — averaging $224.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$5K
- Kerecis Limited$43
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$25
- Smith+Nephew$23
- Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated$17
- Ambu Inc.$17
- plus $57 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,90237%
- Food & beverage$2675%
- Education$3,00458%
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 | 13 | $4,991 |
| Kerecis Limited | 1 | $43 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $23 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $17 |
| Ambu Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $16 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Haemonetics Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group 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.
- DAVINCI XI$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$2,368
How this compares
$5,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 20 trauma 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.
Other trauma surgery in Hammond
- Lauren BaumgartenHammond$1K
- Jeffrey CarterNew Orleans$292K
- Patrick GreiffensteinNew Orleans$161K
- Alison SmithNew Orleans$29K
- Alan MarrNew Orleans$8K
- Lance StukeNew Orleans$7K
- Willard MosierLafayette$5K
- Forrest MooreShreveport$5K
- Navdeep SamraShreveport$5K
- Laura BloomNew Orleans$4K
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.