Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Louisiana
21 providers, $12,679 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $164.
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 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Louisiana
Across 15 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $832,676 in total — an average of $55,512 each, of which $55,512 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
- 1Ty HargroderEunice$4,388
- 2Kenneth SmithMetairie$4,378
- 3Farah AliCovington$676
- 4Michelle BergeronLafayette$585
- 5Trenice AdamsMetairie$560
- 6Kathryn JonesNew Orleans$440
- 7Ryan BasquezBaton Rouge$271
- 8Susan NelsonNew Orleans$237
- 9Katelyn BriggsNew Orleans$215
- 10Ricardo FebryMetairie$206
- 11Amardeep SinghTerrytown$164
- 12Zachary PippinSlidell$160
- 13Brady GuilloryLafayette$93
- 14Patricia NevilsLafayette$74
- 15Andrea WaltersShreveport$47
- 16Marcia GlassNew Orleans$45
- 17James McNaryNew Orleans$39
- 18Zafar JadwetLake Charles$35
- 19Sonia MalhotraNew Orleans$30
- 20Thomas MorelNew Orleans$21
- 21George SchneiderKenner$14