Transplant Surgery in Louisiana
16 providers, $65,944 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
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 transplant surgery clinicians in Louisiana
Across 14 transplant surgery clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $597,862 in total — an average of $42,704 each, of which $42,704 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
- 1Anil ParameshMetairie$20,508
- 2Lee CummingsMetairie$12,269
- 3Adarsh VijayNew Orleans$8,001
- 4Dennis Sonnier JrNew Orleans$7,264
- 5Trine EngebretsenNew Orleans$3,562
- 6Justin BarrNew Orleans$2,654
- 7John SealNew Orleans$2,400
- 8Humberto BohorquezNew Orleans$1,893
- 9Emily BugeaudNew Orleans$1,780
- 10Hosein Shokouh-AmiriShreveport$1,708
- 11Donnie AultmanShreveport$1,325
- 12Robert McMillanShreveport$1,236
- 13Mary KillackeyMetairie$812
- 14David BruceNew Orleans$252
- 15Trevor ReichmanNew Orleans$174
- 16Alana HofmannShreveport$107