Tyler Scullen
Neurological Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1306290499
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by grants: $50,000 of the $51,157 with a category attached, or 97.7%. Medtronic accounts for 98.6% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $50,883 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $108 in 2025.
Across 27 payments — averaging $1894.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$50K
- Imperative Care, Inc$466
- Contego Medical, Inc$180
- Johnson & Johnson$41
- Abbott$23
What the payments were for
- Grants$50,00098%
- Food & beverage$1,1572%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 13 | $50,448 |
| Imperative Care, Inc | 8 | $466 |
| Contego Medical, Inc | 4 | $180 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $41 |
| Abbott | 1 | $23 |
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.
- APOLLOTM$50,000
- ZOOM 88-T LARGE DISTAL PLATFORM$393
- Pipeline$231
How this compares
$51,157 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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
- Aaron DumontNew Orleans$44K
- Sassan KeshavarziNew Orleans$34K
- 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.