Prasanth Patcha, MD
Plastic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1790090264
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 52 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,112, 2.8 times the $755 reported in 2019.
Across 52 payments — averaging $87.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Axogen$800
- Smith+Nephew$305
- RTI Surgical, Inc$304
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$290
- Avita Medical Americas, LLC$268
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,550100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $1,082 |
| Axogen | 7 | $800 |
| Smith+Nephew | 3 | $305 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 3 | $304 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 2 | $290 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $268 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 6 | $247 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $178 |
| Motiva USA, LLC | 2 | $161 |
| Innovation Technologies Inc | 1 | $158 |
| Stryker | 2 | $157 |
| BD | 1 | $153 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 3 | $81 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $51 |
| Osteomed LLC | 1 | $44 |
| Exsomed Corporation | 2 | $39 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $35 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $14 |
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.
- INTEGRA$580
- ALLODERM$402
- NATRELLE$377
- OMNIGRAFT$290
- SURGIMEND$290
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$290
- AXOGUARD$284
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$269
- RECELL$268
- Cohealyx$268
- PERMEADERM$268
- Novosorb BTM$178
- Irrisept$158
- Phasix Mesh$153
- AxoGuard Nerve Protector$152
- AxoGuard Nerve Connector$152
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$148
- VARIAX$147
- Stravix$144
- AXOGUARD HA+ NERVE PROTECTOR$142
How this compares
$4,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 49 plastic 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 plastic surgery in New Orleans
- Abigail ChaffinNew Orleans$284K
- Shoichiro TanakaNew Orleans$20K
- Meredith CollinsNew Orleans$11K
- Mark StalderNew Orleans$8K
- Christopher GoodenoughNew Orleans$8K
- Radbeh TorabiNew Orleans$5K
- Adam HauchNew Orleans$5K
- Hugo St HilaireNew Orleans$4K
- John HoltropNew Orleans$4K
- Russell HendrickNew Orleans$1K
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.