Clinical Nurse Specialist in Louisiana
11 providers, $59,178 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 clinical nurse specialist clinicians in Louisiana
Across 3 clinical nurse specialist clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $67,830 in total — an average of $22,610 each, of which $22,610 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
- 1Amber PeskinNew Orleans$31,672
- 2Lori Quinn-TateBaton Rouge$14,112
- 3Theresa BodkerLafayette$6,306
- 4Roberta McDuffieNew Orleans$2,480
- 5Natalie SantosNew Orleans$1,208
- 6Louise FrederickLafayette$854
- 7Florencetta GibsonMonroe$815
- 8Coletha RileyNew Orleans$773
- 9Laverne WilliamsNew Orleans$725
- 10Julie CastexNew Orleans$130
- 11Germaine WallBaton Rouge$103