Patrick Dennis
Emergency Medical Services · New Orleans, LANPI 1245426774
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $2,723 of the $3,425 with a category attached, or 79.5%. Modernatx, Inc. accounts for 89.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,048 and has fallen 97.4% since, to $79 in 2025. Among emergency medical services 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 21 payments — averaging $163.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$3K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$135
- Organogenesis Inc.$105
- Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$79
- Merck$38
- CSL Behring$20
Across 8,721 payments — averaging $3053.83 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.$20.8M
- Pfizer$829K
- GSK$801K
- Eli Lilly$712K
- Romark Laboratories, LC$549K
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$456K
- plus $2.5M from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,72380%
- Food & beverage$68220%
- Education$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 6 | $3,048 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 9 | $135 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $105 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Merck | 3 | $38 |
| CSL Behring | 1 | $20 |
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.
How this compares
$3,425 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 24 emergency medical services providers in Louisiana.
Other emergency medical services in New Orleans
- Noor AwadNew Orleans$277
- Sherif SaklaNew Orleans$50
- Julius KaplanNew Orleans$23
- Roland WaguespackMetairie$1K
- William WiseShreveport$589
- Terry CreelMetairie$463
- Craig CaplanMetairie$384
- Ramiz KhalafMetairie$332
- Christopher RitterMany$286
- Joseph HauthMetairie$240
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.