Shoichiro Tanaka, MD
Plastic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1639436199
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (40.5%), education and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 37 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.1%. Among plastic surgery clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 143 payments — averaging $142.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Elite Orthopedics, LLC$4K
- RTI Surgical, Inc$3K
- Axogen$3K
- AbbVie$2K
- Arthrex$2K
- Alpha Orthopedic Systems$1K
- plus $6K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2501%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40012%
- Travel & lodging$2,57913%
- Food & beverage$8,23540%
- Education$6,87034%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Elite Orthopedics, LLC | 9 | $4,282 |
| RTI Surgical, Inc | 4 | $2,868 |
| Axogen | 22 | $2,844 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $1,776 |
| Arthrex | 8 | $1,583 |
| Alpha Orthopedic Systems | 2 | $1,209 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 4 | $870 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 9 | $682 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 8 | $500 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $371 |
| Avita Medical Americas, LLC | 2 | $368 |
| Sientra, Inc. | 7 | $295 |
| Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation Inc. | 2 | $236 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $231 |
| Acera Surgical, Inc. | 3 | $218 |
| Kerecis Limited | 4 | $217 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 4 | $163 |
| Skeletal Dynamics Inc | 3 | $148 |
| Mentor Worldwide LLC | 2 | $148 |
| Medartis Inc. | 2 | $142 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 1 | $141 |
| Checkpoint Surgical, Inc | 1 | $126 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $121 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $120 |
| Medela LLC | 2 | $106 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $97 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 2 | $94 |
| Stryker | 1 | $93 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $67 |
| BD | 1 | $58 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Biocomposites Inc | 1 | $27 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Molnlycke Health Care US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Convatec Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $11 |
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.
- CORTIVA ALLOGRAFT DERMIS$2,868
- AVANCE NERVE GRAFT$2,475
- NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$2,130
- REVOLVE$929
- Kerecis Omega3 Marigen$665
- INTEGRA$482
- RECELL$368
- MATRIXCOMBO$292
- ALLODERM$265
- MATRIXORTHOGNATHIC$188
- TRUMATCH$188
- Kerecis Omega3 SurgiClose$166
- INTEGRA DERMAL REGENERATION TEMPLATE$161
- PRIMATRIX$161
- Restrata Wound Matrix$157
- GORE ENFORM Preperitoneal Biomaterial$141
- Geminus$135
- Align$135
- IJS$135
- Implate$135
How this compares
$20,334 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 96 | $586 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 102 | $462 |
| Cephalexin | 69 | $413 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 11 | $43 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other plastic surgery in New Orleans
- Abigail ChaffinNew Orleans$284K
- Meredith CollinsNew Orleans$11K
- Mark StalderNew Orleans$8K
- Christopher GoodenoughNew Orleans$8K
- Radbeh TorabiNew Orleans$5K
- Adam HauchNew Orleans$5K
- Prasanth PatchaNew 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.