Surgical Critical Care in Louisiana
20 providers, $203,094 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,600.
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 surgical critical care clinicians in Louisiana
Across 17 surgical critical care clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $588,928 in total — an average of $34,643 each, of which $34,643 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
- 1Mark MainousShreveport$133,184
- 2Juan OchoaNew Orleans$25,334
- 3Jeffanne MillienNew Orleans$7,531
- 4Juan DuchesneNew Orleans$6,774
- 5Charles HarrisNew Orleans$6,486
- 6Marquinn DukeHammond$5,620
- 7Patrick McGrewNew Orleans$5,152
- 8Jeremy TimmerAlexandria$2,445
- 9Sanaz LeilabadiShreveport$1,657
- 10Gonzalo AusquiHammond$1,600
- 11John HuntNew Orleans$1,284
- 12Richard LewisBaton Rouge$1,169
- 13Don ScarboroNew Orleans$1,113
- 14Shane RinehartShreveport$1,085
- 15Benjamin MartinezBaton Rouge$1,073
- 16Chrissy GuidryNew Orleans$855
- 17Kevin HarrellMetairie$348
- 18Floyd ScottBaton Rouge$184
- 19Michelle PittmanMinden$124
- 20Rodney SteinerNew Orleans$75