Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Louisiana
45 providers, $192,659 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,109.
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 plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in Louisiana
Across 23 plastic and reconstructive surgery clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,170,237 in total — an average of $50,880 each, of which $50,880 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
- 1Simeon WallShreveport$55,867
- 2David JansenMetairie$12,185
- 3Holly WallShreveport$10,589
- 4John GusteMetairie$10,188
- 5Omer KaymakcalanNew Orleans$9,747
- 6Ravi TandonMetairie$9,473
- 7Felix BoppMetairie$7,894
- 8Suma MaddoxNew Orleans$6,057
- 9Stephen MetzingerMetairie$5,894
- 10William AukermanNew Orleans$5,587
- 11Christopher SmithNew Orleans$5,439
- 12Vidhur SohiniNew Orleans$4,949
- 13Christopher BabycosNew Orleans$4,553
- 14Jeffrey RauHouma$4,211
- 15Daniel YooNew Orleans$4,179
- 16Michael MosesNew Orleans$3,749
- 17Stephen DelatteLafayette$3,441
- 18Katherine ChiassonNew Orleans$3,223
- 19Heath CharvetNew Orleans$3,125
- 20Stacy HendersonNew Orleans$2,984
- 21Jenna BourgeoisBaton Rouge$2,487
- 22Charles TuggleNew Orleans$2,328
- 23Forrest WallShreveport$2,109
- 24Matthew BartowNew Orleans$1,733
- 25Kristopher KatiraNew Orleans$1,727
- 26Luke CusimanoBaton Rouge$1,132
- 27Taylor TheunissenBaton Rouge$1,100
- 28Alejandro GimenezNew Orleans$975
- 29Scott SullivanNew Orleans$900
- 30Sarosh ZafarNew Orleans$863
- 31Christopher TrahanNew Orleans$862
- 32Paul DavisShreveport$655
- 33Mary KimShreveport$609
- 34John WilliamsBaton Rouge$480
- 35David CabilingNew Orleans$329
- 36Stephen RameyShreveport$268
- 37Daniel KnightShreveport$172
- 38O'Neil EngeronHouma$155
- 39Ernest SmootLake Charles$124
- 40James WadeBaton Rouge$118
- 41Thomas NaugleNew Orleans$86
- 42Darrell HendersonLafayette$64
- 43John ValiulisShreveport$28
- 44Louis MesLafayette$12
- 45Ralph ColpittsLake Charles$10