Sassan Keshavarzi, MD
Neurological Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1972754927
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (53.9%), food and beverage and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Globus Medical at 31.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,739 and has fallen 70.0% since, to $2,923 in 2025.
Across 252 payments — averaging $134.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Globus Medical$11K
- Stryker$8K
- Alphatec Spine, Inc$7K
- Medtronic$3K
- Altus Partners. LLC$2K
- MML US, Inc.$571
- plus $3K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$18,31054%
- Food & beverage$14,84244%
- Education$8332%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Globus Medical(2 entities) | 82 | $10,781 |
| Stryker | 44 | $7,764 |
| Alphatec Spine, Inc | 22 | $6,636 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 56 | $2,968 |
| Altus Partners. LLC | 2 | $2,249 |
| MML US, Inc. | 7 | $571 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 13 | $530 |
| Spine Wave, Inc. | 4 | $503 |
| Carlsmed, Inc. | 2 | $382 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 2 | $315 |
| Spineart USA Inc | 2 | $197 |
| Orthofix Medical, Inc. | 2 | $154 |
| 4web, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Providence Medical Technology, Inc. | 1 | $147 |
| Surgalign Spine Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $142 |
| Icotec Medical Inc. | 2 | $136 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Amplify Surgical, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 2 | $36 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $23 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Misonix Inc | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Other - Miscellaneous$5,841
- Excelsius Robotics System$4,764
- CASCADIA INTERBODY SYSTEM$2,252
- EVEREST SPINAL SYSTEM$2,233
- YUKON OCT SPINAL SYSTEM$1,610
- RELINE$1,008
- XLIF$982
- BASE$833
- SERRATO$610
- ExcelsiusGPS Robotic Navigation System$548
- CREO$490
- INTELLIS$481
- UNID_PASS$386
- aprevo$382
- T2 STRATOSPHERE EXPANDABLE CORPECTOMY SYSTEM$363
- SALVO SPINE SYSTEM$347
- ELSA$335
- ReActiv8$288
- OZARK CERVICAL PLATE SYSTEM$259
- N/A$218
How this compares
$33,984 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 116 neurological 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 neurological surgery in New Orleans
- Gabriel TenderNew Orleans$255K
- Christopher MaulucciNew Orleans$134K
- Kendrick JohnsonNew Orleans$82K
- Tyler ScullenNew Orleans$51K
- Aaron DumontNew Orleans$44K
- Lora KahnNew Orleans$24K
- Miguel MelgarNew Orleans$20K
- Johnny DelashawNew Orleans$19K
- Adam PodetNew Orleans$15K
- Derrick UmanskyNew Orleans$13K
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.