General Practice in Louisiana
1,221 providers, $1,897,879 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $227.
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 general practice clinicians in Louisiana
Across 47 general practice clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,105,321 in total — an average of $87,347 each, of which $83,048 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
- 1William CaldwellMetairie$942,791
- 2William MaloneLafayette$46,009
- 3Muhammad AnjumShreveport$33,053
- 4Melissa RatliffBarksdale Afb$22,487
- 5Louis PassauerMandeville$20,139
- 6Stan Cowley JrMetairie$15,022
- 7Justin TarverMonroe$11,409
- 8Darrell BourgMarrero$10,230
- 9Terry BillingsMetairie$10,052
- 10Emily LittleInnis$9,691
- 11Aimee Russo-MoungerBaton Rouge$9,636
- 12Chantal CausinMandeville$7,644
- 13Lindi PerkinsMetairie$7,552
- 14Roboan Guillen ArguelloNew Orleans$7,223
- 15James KellerBaton Rouge$6,911
- 16John BarksdaleBaton Rouge$6,799
- 17Andre BruniBaton Rouge$6,556
- 18Joel PerdomoSlidell$6,458
- 19Martha CarrMandeville$6,455
- 20Jonah MooreNew Orleans$6,150
- 21Charles BoudreauxNew Orleans$6,059
- 22James SmithLafayette$5,748
- 23Louis LefebvreGonzales$5,547
- 24Carl TurpinWest Monroe$5,529
- 25Thomas OrgeronSlidell$5,437
- 26Michael GallagherMetairie$5,159
- 27Michael WoolbertShreveport$4,889
- 28Chad LacourBaton Rouge$4,705
- 29Jared PalmerThibodaux$4,663
- 30Katie FamiglioHarvey$4,501
- 31William GrandMandeville$4,405
- 32George WaterfallenBastrop$4,405
- 33Jorge CruzSlidell$4,350
- 34Michael BoudreauxHouma$4,228
- 35Mayda FergusonMetairie$4,180
- 36Andrew VoelkelCovington$4,160
- 37Caroline HaynieShreveport$4,090
- 38Atif GhaffarNew Orleans$4,053
- 39Dirk RainwaterJonesboro$3,955
- 40James LowderShreveport$3,841
- 41Patrick GuidryPlaquemine$3,815
- 42Brian ConnellGretna$3,813
- 43Claire RaphaelMetairie$3,789
- 44Zachary GoodmanMinden$3,780
- 45Samuel SandersMonroe$3,762
- 46James RoetheleKenner$3,675
- 47Mary BeilmanCovington$3,670
- 48Mark ChaneyNew Orleans$3,634
- 49Robert CamenzuliNew Orleans$3,526
- 50Roy CantrelleCovington$3,500
- 51James MoreauCovington$3,457
- 52Charles BrighamBossier City$3,362
- 53Stephen CambreSlidell$3,187
- 54Shelly ErethMetairie$3,175
- 55Richard MooreBenton$3,137
- 56Chester BoudreauxThibodaux$3,093
- 57Gabriel DarocaMandeville$3,044
- 58Ryan WolfeBelle Chasse$3,038
- 59Thomas ChaissonThibodaux$2,942
- 60Morgan VanzandtShreveport$2,908