Hepatology in Louisiana
9 providers, $655,293 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 hepatology clinicians in Louisiana
Across 7 hepatology clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $422,305 in total — an average of $60,329 each, of which $60,329 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
- 1George TherapondosNew Orleans$364,507
- 2Shobha JoshiNew Orleans$168,532
- 3Nigel GirgrahNew Orleans$97,355
- 4John GosserandAlexandria$14,717
- 5Peng-Sheng TingNew Orleans$5,890
- 6Molly DelkNew Orleans$3,676
- 7Mariana ZapataNew Orleans$375
- 8Manohar MaramrajAlexandria$224
- 9Thomas ParambilNew Orleans$16