Rohan Walvekar, MD
Otolaryngology · New Orleans, LANPI 1619987997
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (49.7%), speaking fees and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Cook Incorporated accounts for 70.8% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $7,100 and has fallen 80.8% since, to $1,361 in 2025. Among otolaryngology 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 36 payments — averaging $593.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Cook Incorporated$15K
- Intuitive Surgical$4K
- Ambu A/s$1K
- Cook Medical LLC$480
- Cook Research Incorporated$400
- Integra Lifesciences Corporation$168
- plus $321 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$10,62050%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,26329%
- Travel & lodging$1,2306%
- Food & beverage$7574%
- Education$2,50012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cook Incorporated | 12 | $15,120 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $3,818 |
| Ambu A/s | 1 | $1,063 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 5 | $480 |
| Cook Research Incorporated | 1 | $400 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $168 |
| Immersivetouch, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| KARL Storz Endoscopy-america | 2 | $88 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Cook Medical Head and Neck Surgery$8,500
- Cook-Swartz$6,220
- DA VINCI SP$2,500
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,150
- Cook Medical Lithotripters$700
- INTEGRA$505
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$168
- PRIMATRIX$168
- ImmersiveTouch$130
How this compares
$21,370 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 218 otolaryngology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cevimeline Hcl | 11 | $911 |
| Methylprednisolone | 20 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other otolaryngology in New Orleans
- Donald GonzalesNew Orleans$351K
- Edward McCoulNew Orleans$92K
- Jonathan OwensNew Orleans$7K
- Paul FriedlanderNew Orleans$6K
- Grayson GremillionNew Orleans$4K
- Newland WorleyNew Orleans$4K
- Jacqueline MagneNew Orleans$3K
- Kevin McLaughlinCovington$186K
- Adil FatakiaMarrero$148K
- Michael YimShreveport$77K
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.