Wendy Bernstein, MD
Anesthesiology · Shreveport, LANPI 1679516066
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $14,340 of the $16,107 with a category attached, or 89.0%. Abbott accounts for 86.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $13,895 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $1,612 in 2025. Among anesthesiology 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 30 payments — averaging $536.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$14K
- BD$2K
- Medtronic$292
- GE HealthCare$190
- Teleflex LLC$33
- Baxter Healthcare$20
- plus $36 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$14,34089%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9006%
- Food & beverage$8675%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 15 | $13,895 |
| BD | 5 | $1,642 |
| Medtronic | 5 | $292 |
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $190 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $20 |
| Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc | 1 | $19 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $17 |
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.
- HeartMate 3 Left Ventricular Assist Device$13,550
- HemoSphere$742
- BIS$155
How this compares
$16,107 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 497 anesthesiology 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 anesthesiology in Shreveport
- Keith MayfieldShreveport$32K
- Caroline CarrollShreveport$26K
- Aya MouhaffelShreveport$20K
- Richard FairShreveport$17K
- Luke MoselShreveport$14K
- Andrew LarsonShreveport$11K
- Debbie ChandlerShreveport$5K
- Brian BernhardtShreveport$4K
- George MychaskiwShreveport$2K
- Michael FranklinShreveport$2K
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.