General Surgery in Louisiana
14 providers, $28,687 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 general surgery clinicians in Louisiana
Across 14 general surgery clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $559,227 in total — an average of $39,945 each, of which $39,900 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
- 1Kelvin ContrearyMetairie$13,672
- 2Jonathan TaylorBaton Rouge$13,443
- 3Dietric HenningsNew Orleans$1,004
- 4Michael DupreBaton Rouge$296
- 5Alexandra OnyiegoNew Orleans$226
- 6Alec HirschBaton Rouge$27
- 7Erin SoletoMinden$19
- 8Robert ShaforSlidell$0
- 9Yasheka NicholsonFranklinton$0
- 10Brisco DugasHammond$0
- 11Ryan WolfortShreveport$0
- 12Richard WilliamsAlexandria$0
- 13Hamid KakavandiBastrop$0
- 14Andrew MinardiMamou$0