Blakely Nelson Thornton

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

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.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Practises at

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

• Christus Coushatta Health Care Center Hospital · Coushatta, LA · listed as Christus Health Central Louisiana
• Willis Knighton Medical Center Hospital · Shreveport, LA · listed as Willis Knighton Medical Center, Inc
• Christus Shreveport-Bossier Health System Hospital · Shreveport, LA
• Christus St Frances Cabrini Hospital Hospital · Alexandria, LA

Colleagues at Christus Health Central Louisiana

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 45 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Mehul Bhalja, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Alexandria, LA
• Dr. Baochong B Chang, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Waco, TX
• Charli Cox, APRN Nurse Practitioner · Natchitoches, LA
• Dr. Nabil Morshed Gad, MD Psychiatry Physician · Alexandria, LA
• Macy Guin Family Nurse Practitioner · Coushatta, LA
• Omar De Jesus Gutierrez, MD Surgery Physician · Pensacola, FL
• Mrs. Krista Johnson Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Simmesport, LA
• Jennifer Marie Murphy, APRN, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Alexandria, LA
• Brenda Proctor Family Nurse Practitioner · Opelousas, LA
• Emily Claire Scalfano, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner · Alexandria, LA
• Dr. Alexandre Leoni Slatkin, MD Pulmonary Disease Physician · Alexandria, LA
• Sean K Troxclair, MD Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · Coushatta, LA

Other providers in Shreveport

• Amelia Kate Ramsey, MD

  Individual Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1073177952

  2121 Line Ave, Shreveport, LA 71104-2126 · (901) 448-5885

• Dr. David Rengifo, MD

  Individual Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1811485782

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

• Dr. Clifford H Rice Jr., MD

  Individual Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1093719833

  1455 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop Ste 206, Shreveport, LA 71105-6000 · (318) 798-4464

• Frederick J Stucker Jr., MD

  Individual Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1508890856

  1501 Kings Hwy Dept OF Otolaryngology, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 813-2690

• Preston Harris Tolbert, MD

  Individual Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1568211696

  1501 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (210) 618-1109

• William Harrel Watkins, MD

  Individual Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1003812009

  2121 Line Ave, Shreveport, LA 71104-2126 · (318) 226-9441

• William Juan Watkins, MD

  Individual Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1932105327

  2121 Line Ave, Shreveport, LA 71104-2126 · (318) 226-9441

• Wk Pierremont ENT

  Organization Otolaryngology Physician · NPI 1659316727

  7847 Youree Dr, Shreveport, LA 71105-5505 · (318) 212-3960