Trauma Surgery in Louisiana
20 providers, $531,985 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $4,142.
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 trauma surgery clinicians in Louisiana
Across 15 trauma surgery clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $410,531 in total — an average of $27,369 each, of which $27,369 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
- 1Jeffrey CarterNew Orleans$291,881
- 2Patrick GreiffensteinNew Orleans$161,174
- 3Alison SmithNew Orleans$29,121
- 4Alan MarrNew Orleans$7,852
- 5Lance StukeNew Orleans$6,981
- 6Willard MosierLafayette$5,461
- 7Forrest MooreShreveport$5,394
- 8Michael FahrHammond$5,173
- 9Navdeep SamraShreveport$4,657
- 10Laura BloomNew Orleans$4,142
- 11Shahrzad TalebinejadBaton Rouge$2,712
- 12Robert ReilyNew Orleans$2,241
- 13Sharven TaghaviMetairie$1,440
- 14Lauren BaumgartenHammond$1,090
- 15Taylor FontenotMetairie$727
- 16Brett ChapmanShreveport$716
- 17Taylor WeardaNew Orleans$474
- 18Charles RichartShreveport$455
- 19Alexis ScheuermannNew Orleans$258
- 20Richard WigleShreveport$35