Infectious Disease in Louisiana
105 providers, $1,191,704 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $611.
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 infectious disease clinicians in Louisiana
Across 76 infectious disease clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,811,234 in total — an average of $63,306 each, of which $63,162 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
- 1Hector Brunet RodriguezShreveport$591,544
- 2Guillermo Padilla-PinedaShreveport$106,202
- 3Eric EhrensingNew Orleans$96,524
- 4Meredith ClementNew Orleans$92,504
- 5Rebecca LillisNew Orleans$59,969
- 6Stephanie TaylorNew Orleans$24,611
- 7Edwin SwiatloNew Orleans$21,853
- 8John DepaulaMetairie$16,982
- 9Frank RabitoMetairie$12,866
- 10Jihad El-HayekShreveport$10,703
- 11Jonathan HandNew Orleans$9,879
- 12Carlos HartmannCovington$9,425
- 13Markalain DeryNew Orleans$8,647
- 14Halim Abou FaycalShreveport$8,635
- 15Julia Garcia-DiazNew Orleans$7,850
- 16Paul MonierThibodaux$7,676
- 17Mary JoubertSlidell$7,387
- 18Walter CampbellBaton Rouge$6,358
- 19Maria Suarez BohorquezSlidell$6,272
- 20Alma GjinoSlidell$6,162
- 21Paulette Pinargote CornejoShreveport$5,894
- 22Mohammad AlamShreveport$5,065
- 23Alexandre MalekShreveport$4,764
- 24Anish ShahMetairie$4,349
- 25John ToddShreveport$3,551
- 26Obinna NneduNew Orleans$3,444
- 27Camille BitarCovington$3,215
- 28Aaron McLemoreAlexandria$3,177
- 29Katherine BaumgartenNew Orleans$3,100
- 30George PankeyNew Orleans$2,564
- 31Michael HagenseeNew Orleans$2,527
- 32Shiva AkulaNew Orleans$2,503
- 33Waref AzmehBaton Rouge$2,095
- 34Gerardo NegronShreveport$2,023
- 35Diane FaillaMetairie$1,636
- 36Aline ArifShreveport$1,599
- 37Mary EscheteHouma$1,560
- 38Erik MeyersMarrero$1,555
- 39Maria Reyes AngelesBaton Rouge$1,547
- 40Stacy GreeneNew Orleans$1,378
- 41Breanna CampbellBaton Rouge$1,250
- 42Michael HillCovington$1,234
- 43Jishna ShresthaLafayette$1,189
- 44Patrick NjokuBaton Rouge$979
- 45Carlos ChoucinoLake Charles$961
- 46Scott AndersonBaton Rouge$937
- 47Ashaur AzharNew Orleans$881
- 48Shobha Rani VootukuriBaton Rouge$881
- 49Camille BourgeoisNew Orleans$869
- 50Bridget OryCovington$860
- 51Alfred LukNew Orleans$798
- 52Christopher WexlerLafayette$684
- 53Madeleine HeckBaton Rouge$611
- 54Raymond CoghlanShreveport$601
- 55Evan RivereLafayette$575
- 56Vitalis OkechukwuLafayette$555
- 57David MushattNew Orleans$551
- 58Jeffrey CocoNew Orleans$509
- 59Logan LedetHouma$507
- 60John NnadiBaton Rouge$491