Parth Parekh, MD
Gastroenterology · New Orleans, LANPI 1679862783
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 133 payments — averaging $73.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Olympus America Inc.$1K
- Conmed Corporation$1K
- Covidien LP$1K
- Ambu Inc.$938
- Boston Scientific$870
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$822
- plus $4K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3504%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1251%
- Travel & lodging$1,01010%
- Food & beverage$8,21784%
- Education$651%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Olympus America Inc. | 22 | $1,395 |
| Conmed Corporation | 12 | $1,147 |
| Covidien LP | 14 | $1,001 |
| Ambu Inc. | 2 | $938 |
| Boston Scientific | 10 | $870 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 9 | $822 |
| Medtronic | 10 | $661 |
| Steris Corporation | 2 | $490 |
| US Endoscopy | 1 | $350 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 13 | $261 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $239 |
| Lucid Diagnostics Inc. | 2 | $188 |
| Endogastric Solutions, Inc | 2 | $149 |
| Gilead | 2 | $126 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $125 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $121 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $105 |
| Medrobotics Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $84 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 1 | $58 |
| Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation | 2 | $57 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 3 | $34 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Merck | 2 | $29 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Abbott | 1 | $20 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $16 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- X-Tack Endoscopic HeliX Tacking System$1,062
- CONMED BILIARY$882
- OverStitch Endoscopic Suturing System$671
- CONMED HEMOSTASIS$575
- Beacon$558
- TRUFREEZE$396
- Coin Tip Snare$350
- Barrx$274
- HANAROSTENT Biliary (NNN)$271
- STELARA$239
- APOLLO ESG System$135
- ESOPHYX$128
- ORBERA Intragastric Balloon System$126
- GATTEX$125
- Reltone 200 Mg$125
- Reltone 400 Mg$125
- DUPIXENT$123
- IQIRVO$121
- CONMED GENERATORS$118
- ManoScan$111
How this compares
$9,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 254 gastroenterology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 15 | $15,241 |
| Sucralfate | 13 | $2,806 |
| Omeprazole | 77 | $1,044 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 31 | $474 |
| Amitriptyline Hcl | 12 | $158 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 11 | $80 |
| Metoclopramide Hcl | 11 | $65 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLinzess | $261 | $15,24115 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 70th percentile of 254 gastroenterology providers in Louisiana.
Other gastroenterology in New Orleans
- Vivek HuilgolNew Orleans$1.6M
- Sarah GloverNew Orleans$1.2M
- Shamita ShahNew Orleans$479K
- Nisha LoganantharajNew Orleans$173K
- Janak ShahNew Orleans$100K
- Virendra JoshiNew Orleans$81K
- Luis BalartNew Orleans$70K
- Vallisitaram KodaliNew Orleans$29K
- Arnab RayNew Orleans$26K
- Stephen LandreneauNew Orleans$17K
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.