Pediatric Pulmonology in Louisiana
21 providers, $31,409 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $835.
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 pediatric pulmonology clinicians in Louisiana
Across 1 pediatric pulmonology clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,404 in total — an average of $2,404 each, of which $2,404 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
- 1Dean EdellBaton Rouge$5,078
- 2Jessica BrownBaton Rouge$4,647
- 3Adrienne SavantNew Orleans$3,886
- 4Andres Carrion-VargasBaton Rouge$3,623
- 5Giovanni PiedimonteNew Orleans$3,488
- 6David SwetlandNew Orleans$1,714
- 7Kimberly JonesShreveport$1,626
- 8Eduardo HernandezSlidell$1,566
- 9Stephen LevineCovington$1,357
- 10Scott DavisNew Orleans$875
- 11Leah NussNew Orleans$835
- 12Timothy BeatyNew Orleans$530
- 13Michael KiernanMetairie$526
- 14Sterling SimpsonBaton Rouge$492
- 15Thomas HorsmanBaton Rouge$453
- 16Nasr AborawiNew Orleans$196
- 17Robert HopkinsNew Orleans$171
- 18David ThomasBaton Rouge$110
- 19Mayra BustilloFranklin$91
- 20Uday Kumar ChalwadiShreveport$83
- 21Vukmir VlasicLafayette$64