Vascular Neurology in Louisiana
14 providers, $193,200 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 vascular neurology clinicians in Louisiana
Across 13 vascular neurology clinicians in Louisiana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $441,506 in total — an average of $33,962 each, of which $33,962 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
- 1Gabriel VidalNew Orleans$166,888
- 2Richard ZweiflerNew Orleans$4,742
- 3Vijayakumar JavalkarShreveport$4,362
- 4Pankaj SharmaShreveport$3,136
- 5Roger KelleyShreveport$2,721
- 6Himanshu ChokhawalaShreveport$2,507
- 7Bryce CasteigneThibodaux$2,460
- 8Ashok PoluBaton Rouge$2,433
- 9Priyadarshee PatelShreveport$1,948
- 10Robert TrainorNew Orleans$824
- 11Kim LeeNew Orleans$407
- 12Syed AbbasShreveport$346
- 13Uday Shanker NadimpallyNew Orleans$300
- 14Timothy UpchurchMarrero$124