Prosthodontics in Louisiana
31 providers, $508,870 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $995.
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 prosthodontics clinicians in Louisiana
Across 1 prosthodontics clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,624 in total — an average of $1,624 each, of which $1,624 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
- 1Jonathan EsquivelMetairie$289,282
- 2Marco BrindisMetairie$183,658
- 3Amir Hossein NejatNew Orleans$5,734
- 4Richard AppletonBaton Rouge$4,273
- 5Robert RooneySlidell$4,234
- 6Alejandro Trevino SantosNew Orleans$2,576
- 7Faye MascarenhasNew Orleans$2,110
- 8Laurie MoellerNew Orleans$2,053
- 9Kellene ColeRiver Ridge$2,001
- 10Conrad FreyLafayette$1,808
- 11Alika YuNew Orleans$1,720
- 12Luis InfanteNew Orleans$1,137
- 13Arturo MendezNew Orleans$1,089
- 14Luis Miguel Alvarado AmadoShreveport$1,021
- 15Michael ShannonBaton Rouge$1,014
- 16Diana PalmisanoMetairie$995
- 17Jorge PalaviciniNew Orleans$849
- 18Paola DonaireMetairie$661
- 19Michael MaginnisBaton Rouge$473
- 20Jose ViquezNew Orleans$382
- 21Israel FingerMetairie$371
- 22Roger VitterMetairie$364
- 23Maria ChatzinikolaMonroe$260
- 24William CunninghamShreveport$201
- 25Mark DurhamMetairie$156
- 26Allyn ColemanPineville$135
- 27Ahmad Reza Edalati SharbafKenner$91
- 28Adriana CorderoNew Orleans$77
- 29Evangelia GkoulitouCovington$71
- 30Lamprini LeotsakouLafayette$40
- 31Tyler LasseigneBaton Rouge$34