Nathan Bolton, MD
Surgical Oncology · New Orleans, LANPI 1841565157
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — education (53.2%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 61.2% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,025, more than ten times the $137 reported in 2020.
Across 20 payments — averaging $297.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Intera Oncology, Inc$2K
- Medtronic$239
- AstraZeneca$163
- Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.$160
- Bayer$23
- plus $21 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,50025%
- Travel & lodging$5239%
- Food & beverage$76013%
- Education$3,16053%
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 | 9 | $3,636 |
| Intera Oncology, Inc | 2 | $1,702 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $239 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $163 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
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$3,480
- INTERA$1,702
- TRINAV INFUSION SYSTEM$160
- Signia$133
How this compares
$5,943 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 26 surgical oncology 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 surgical oncology in New Orleans
- Shawn McKinneyNew Orleans$4K
- David PointerNew Orleans$4K
- Amy RivereNew Orleans$4K
- Omeed MoavenNew Orleans$3K
- Nicole WalkerNew Orleans$3K
- Mohamed ShamaNew Orleans$2K
- Saad Al AwwadNew Orleans$2K
- Russell BrownNew Orleans$2K
- Jane WeyNew Orleans$1K
- George FuhrmanNew Orleans$675
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.