Blake Joseph Freeman, DNP, CRNA

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.

• University Medical Center New Orleans Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Louisiana State University

Colleagues at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans Faculty G

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 447 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Jessica Raines Bordes Hospitalist Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Lionel Andrew Branch Jr., MD Neurology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Stuart Brown Anesthesiology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Amit Chawla, MD Vascular Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Suneeta Sammi Ganji, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. John James Hutchings, MD Gastroenterology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Alfredo A. Lopez, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Elizabeth Rourke, DO, MPH Urology Physician · Metairie, LA
• Marcelle Marie Rousseau, MD Pediatrics Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Emilio Anthony Russo, MD Family Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Gabriel Tender, MD Neurological Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Luke Yesbeck Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Alva Denise Farnell, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1487937223

  4926 S Tonti St, New Orleans, LA 70125-4744 · (504) 756-4565

• Cody Farnet

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1538770078

  1900 Gravier St, New Orleans, LA 70112-2262 · (504) 568-4221

• Taylor Faul, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1144606260

  2021 Perdido St, New Orleans, LA 70112-1352 · (504) 903-3370

• Lillian Fogarty, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1437163177

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-4000

• Stephani B Frost, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1780064600

  1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2600 · (504) 988-6958

• Howard Michael Fussell, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1467782193

  214 N Pierce St, New Orleans, LA 70119-5119 · (504) 810-7412

• Ashley Justin Galloway, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1386909836

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-3755

• Raquel Gautreaux, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1972348266

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-3000