Mohammad Al Efishat, MD
Surgery · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1710312400
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $13,156 of the $21,776 with a category attached, or 60.4%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 78.9% of it on its own, with 31 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $16,584 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $649 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 102 payments — averaging $213.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$17K
- Stryker$751
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$745
- Kerecis Limited$485
- Johnson & Johnson$395
- Medtronic$354
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,90818%
- Food & beverage$4,71222%
- Education$13,15660%
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 | 29 | $17,184 |
| Stryker | 5 | $751 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 11 | $745 |
| Kerecis Limited | 10 | $485 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $395 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $354 |
| Endomagnetics Ltd | 1 | $216 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| Sanara Medtech Inc. | 2 | $175 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $167 |
| BD | 3 | $154 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Conmed Corporation | 1 | $123 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $57 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 3 | $55 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $51 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $49 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $46 |
| Merck | 1 | $32 |
| Histosonics, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Dilon Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $26 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Springworks Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Novartis | 1 | $17 |
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$15,974
- DAVINCI XI$1,000
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$726
- GORE SYNECOR Biomaterial$583
- SPY-PHI SYSTEM$582
- INTEGRA$446
- Kerecis Omega3 GraftGuide$242
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$242
- Magseed$216
- Magtrace$216
- Emprint$166
- CellerateRx$151
- OMNIGRAFT$149
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$149
- V.A.C. DERMATAC$133
- PREVENA$133
- V.A.C. VERAFLO CLEANSE CHOICE$133
- ECHELON ENDOPATH$128
- SURGICEL NU-KNIT$128
- AIRSEAL$123
How this compares
$21,776 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Other surgery in Baton Rouge
- John TaborBaton Rouge$567K
- Mark HausmannBaton Rouge$250K
- Daryl MarxBaton Rouge$157K
- Tracee ShortBaton Rouge$108K
- Karl LeblancBaton Rouge$55K
- Karalyn BentleyBaton Rouge$42K
- Asif TalukderBaton Rouge$42K
- Joseph GriffinBaton Rouge$33K
- Danielle CobbBaton Rouge$18K
- Andrew HargroderBaton Rouge$12K
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.