Has Richard Gitter, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,490,381 in general payments to Richard Gitter, MD across 37 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Gitter, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Richard Gitter, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Richard Gitter, MD

Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Metairie, LANPI 1487635215

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by other: $1,489,527 of the $1,490,381 with a category attached, or 99.9%. Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,481,392 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $44 in 2025. Among thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) 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.

$1,490,381in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $40,281 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$1.5M
Boston Scientific$369
Venclose Inc.$166
Medtronic$84
Biocompatibles, Inc.$40
Tactile Systems Technology Inc$28

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$8540%
Other$1,489,527100%

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
Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.	10	$1,489,693
Boston Scientific	15	$369
Venclose Inc.	3	$166
Medtronic(2 entities)	4	$84
Biocompatibles, Inc.	3	$40
Tactile Systems Technology Inc	2	$28

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.

EVRSF$120

How this compares

$1,490,381 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 75 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$816,821

Medicare patients

149

Services billed

1,508

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
Furosemide	21	$62
Lorazepam	15	$7
Ibuprofen	12	$6

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) in Metairie

Aabha DivyaMetairie$11K
Tod EngelhardtMetairie$7K
Michael BrothersMetairie$3K
Harry RoachMetairie$3K
Jamil BorgiMetairie$3K
Emily CassidyBaton Rouge$1.3M
David AllieLafayette$666K
Vern KellerLafayette$394K
Aditya BansalNew Orleans$140K
Daniel BecklesLake Charles$80K

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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.

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