Sports Medicine in Louisiana
82 providers, $3,676,711 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,045.
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 sports medicine clinicians in Louisiana
Across 70 sports medicine clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,635,122 in total — an average of $94,787 each, of which $86,613 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
- 1Felix SavoieNew Orleans$1,356,756
- 2Misty SuriNew Orleans$1,214,193
- 3Michael ObrienNew Orleans$390,783
- 4Brett CascioLake Charles$81,775
- 5Brian GodshawNew Orleans$68,511
- 6Andrew GottschalkJefferson$44,925
- 7Michael LeddyAlexandria$44,483
- 8Steven JonesHammond$38,036
- 9Mario Lobao GoncalvesShreveport$32,297
- 10Jeremy BurnhamBaton Rouge$31,490
- 11Kyle PlanchardShreveport$29,403
- 12Jamie RisterAlexandria$25,691
- 13Paul PhillipsNew Orleans$25,660
- 14Katy MorrisHammond$22,277
- 15Benjamin GuevaraSlidell$19,370
- 16Paul WilliamsLafayette$17,350
- 17Wendell HeardNew Orleans$16,509
- 18Russell RussoNew Orleans$16,207
- 19Brian LindenmayerGonzales$14,054
- 20George ByramShreveport$13,839
- 21Walter ChoateJefferson$13,469
- 22White GravesMonroe$10,087
- 23Christopher BankheadBaton Rouge$9,288
- 24Kelly HillNew Orleans$9,094
- 25Richard BartonShreveport$8,537
- 26Donald CarsonBaton Rouge$8,411
- 27Jeffrey WittyHammond$7,917
- 28Scott MontgomeryNew Orleans$7,292
- 29Jeffrey CountsMonroe$7,196
- 30Alexander HabashySlidell$6,890
- 31Michael HartmanKenner$6,093
- 32Julie NeumannBaton Rouge$6,070
- 33Phillip BacillaAlexandria$6,017
- 34Michael McNultyMetairie$5,564
- 35Mathew MazochBaton Rouge$5,096
- 36Rani WhitfieldBaton Rouge$4,900
- 37James RobinsonBaton Rouge$4,208
- 38David LeslieJefferson$3,634
- 39Geoffrey HoganPrairieville$3,409
- 40Peter BlesseySlidell$3,158
- 41Shannon GoodeJefferson$3,045
- 42Carlton HoutzShreveport$2,873
- 43William CenacNew Iberia$2,743
- 44Brian HarrellLake Charles$2,406
- 45Jeffrey BurnhamBaton Rouge$2,301
- 46Thomas MontgomeryLafayette$2,297
- 47Stephen EtheredgeBaton Rouge$2,139
- 48Michael ZeringueMetairie$1,965
- 49Olabode AgajaJefferson$1,772
- 50Alex AndersonLake Charles$1,727
- 51Naina Bouchereau-LalShreveport$1,232
- 52William Johnsonla Place$1,057
- 53Charles WebbShreveport$980
- 54Judson PentonLafayette$941
- 55Amanda Phillips-SavoyLafayette$835
- 56Mark WilsonMinden$693
- 57Thomas BondLafayette$671
- 58Sheung Man Alexander SinLafayette$644
- 59David TrettinMonroe$617
- 60Nathan HenslerHammond$539