Cytopathology in Louisiana
9 providers, $1,497 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 cytopathology clinicians in Louisiana
Across 7 cytopathology clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $218,863 in total — an average of $31,266 each, of which $31,266 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
- 1Gregory SossamanNew Orleans$587
- 2Ashley FlowersShreveport$337
- 3Shams HalatBaton Rouge$239
- 4Thom SmilariNew Orleans$97
- 5Mona BansalNew Orleans$90
- 6Gretchen GoochNew Orleans$72
- 7William NewmanNew Orleans$30
- 8Angela Dipoto BrahmbhattShreveport$28
- 9Jeffrey ConyersNew Orleans$18