Emergency Medical Services in Louisiana
24 providers, $7,861 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $71.
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 emergency medical services clinicians in Louisiana
Across 15 emergency medical services clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $739,851 in total — an average of $49,323 each, of which $49,323 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
- 1Patrick DennisNew Orleans$3,425
- 2Roland WaguespackMetairie$1,056
- 3William WiseShreveport$589
- 4Terry CreelMetairie$463
- 5Craig CaplanMetairie$384
- 6Ramiz KhalafMetairie$332
- 7Christopher RitterMany$286
- 8Noor AwadNew Orleans$277
- 9Joseph HauthMetairie$240
- 10Thomas BowdenFranklinton$227
- 11Deeb SuddNew Iberia$102
- 12Edward LiretteSlidell$71
- 13Sara KellyAlexandria$64
- 14Vinay JunejaLafayette$60
- 15Sherif SaklaNew Orleans$50
- 16Angie RagasSlidell$41
- 17Archie TatfordSlidell$39
- 18Victor TucklerJefferson$37
- 19John WalesMetairie$23
- 20Julius KaplanNew Orleans$23
- 21James HebertAlexandria$21
- 22Kumar AmaraneniSlidell$20
- 23Michael GriebMetairie$19
- 24Charles RobertsPineville$12