Sean Obrien, MD
Diagnostic Radiology · Metairie, LANPI 1144202128
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,601 of the $7,625 with a category attached, or 73.5%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Penumbra, Inc. at 36.2% of the total. Among diagnostic radiology 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 113 payments — averaging $67.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Penumbra, Inc.$3K
- Boston Scientific$2K
- Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc.$623
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$382
- Terumo Medical Corporation$349
- Medtronic$243
- plus $991 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,02427%
- Food & beverage$5,60173%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Penumbra, Inc. | 19 | $2,760 |
| Boston Scientific | 28 | $2,277 |
| Trisalus Life Sciences, Inc. | 15 | $623 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 9 | $382 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 7 | $349 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 6 | $243 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 5 | $204 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $127 |
| Venturemed Group, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Stryker | 4 | $94 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $67 |
| Sirtex Medical Inc | 1 | $45 |
| BD | 2 | $43 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $42 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 1 | $36 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Indigo System$2,058
- DIREXION$750
- GENERAL EMBOLICS$251
- PowerPort M.R.I. Implantable Port$167
- Indigo$164
- AZUR$136
- Navicross$136
- GORE VIATORR TIPS Endoprosthesis$130
- EMBOLD Fibered$127
- XARELTO$125
- SpiderFX$124
- TRINAV INFUSION SYSTEM$124
- INTERLOCK$123
- Azur CX Detachable$122
- TheraSphere Administration Set$118
- TRUSELECT$109
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$105
How this compares
$7,625 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 418 diagnostic radiology 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $88 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other diagnostic radiology in Metairie
- David St GermainMetairie$919
- James GrudenNew Orleans$171K
- James RuizBaton Rouge$105K
- Ankit PansaraNew Orleans$28K
- Eric RubinNew Orleans$24K
- Richard TramelNew Orleans$23K
- Dennis KayCovington$19K
- David AllevaBaton Rouge$15K
- John GrezaffiBaton Rouge$12K
- William DawsonMarrero$11K
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.