Azem Chami

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport-St Mary Medical Cent Hospital · Shreveport, LA · listed as Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - St Mary Medical Center, LLC
• Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport Hospital · Shreveport, LA

Colleagues at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport Faculty Group Practice

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 569 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Roy Brandhurst, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Donald Newton Givler, MD Family Medicine Physician · Monroe, LA
• Dr. Shreedhar Kulkarni, MD Psychiatry Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Dr. Terry Lairmore, MD Surgery Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Jaden Lee Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LA
• MS. Nimisha Madas, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Amira Odisho, MBBS Psychosomatic Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Cherri Anne Potts, MSN, APRN, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Shreveport, LA
• Rahul Kamlesh Shah, MBBS Neurocritical Care Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Anthony Hunkyun Sin, MD Neurological Surgery Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Shanah Denise Walker, NP Women's Health Nurse Practitioner · Shreveport, LA
• Michael T Yim, MD Otolaryngology Physician · Shreveport, LA

Other providers in Shreveport

• Anesthesiology and Pain Management

  Organization Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · NPI 1164514774

  1666 E Bert Kouns Loop Ste 125, Shreveport, LA 71105-5714 · (318) 752-7960

• Arklatex Medical Consultants a Medical Corporation

  Organization Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · NPI 1710466628

  8731 Park Plaza Dr, Shreveport, LA 71105-5682 · (318) 797-5848

• Caroline B Carroll, MD

  Individual Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · NPI 1205331717

  1541 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0000

• Dr. Richard Nelson Fair, MD

  Individual Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · NPI 1508144296

  1541 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0000

• Musculoskeletal Institute of Louisiana, LLC

  Organization Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · NPI 1003920232

  1534 Elizabeth Ave Ste 201, Shreveport, LA 71101-4531 · (318) 629-5505

• Park Plaza Surgical Specialists LLC

  Organization Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · NPI 1346871605

  8731 Park Plaza Dr Ste B, Shreveport, LA 71105-5682 · (318) 797-5848

• Dr. Sudarshan Manikchand Tanga, MD

  Individual Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician · NPI 1336152610

  8730 Youree Dr Ste C, Shreveport, LA 71115 · (318) 752-7960