Body Imaging in Louisiana
12 providers, $288,053 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays body imaging clinicians in Louisiana
Across 11 body imaging clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $721,458 in total — an average of $65,587 each, of which $65,587 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1David SmithNew Orleans$273,250
- 2Stephen JohnsonNew Orleans$12,079
- 3Robert RaymondNew Orleans$1,635
- 4Michael MaristanyNew Orleans$321
- 5Paul JacksonNew Orleans$189
- 6Richard MankinenNew Orleans$164
- 7Pavan NarraGretna$144
- 8Roque FerreyroNew Orleans$115
- 9Brian OgdenNew Orleans$66
- 10Todd LaymanNew Orleans$56
- 11Curtis DuplechainThibodaux$22
- 12William KnoxNew Orleans$12