Charles C. Smith III, MD

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.

• East Jefferson General Hospital Hospital · Metairie, LA
• Ochsner Medical Center Acute Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center
• Touro Infirmary Hospital · New Orleans, LA
• West Jefferson Medical Center Hospital · Marrero, LA
• Mercy Home Health Services Home health agency · Mandeville, LA · listed as Mercy Health Services LLC
• Guardian Angel Hospice Hospice · Metairie, LA · listed as Guardian Hospice, Inc
• Elara Caring Home health agency · Metairie, LA

Colleagues at Crescent City Physicians Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 158 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Karley Marie Boagni, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · New Orleans, LA
• Arelis Figueroa Bruno, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Metairie, LA
• Ashley Chan, PA-C Physician Assistant · New Orleans, LA
• MS. Jennifer Ann Greenheck, FNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · New Orleans, LA
• Jayne Gurtler, MD Hematology & Oncology Physician · Metairie, LA
• Dr. Eugene Leonard Kukuy, MD Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Alexander James Nay Internal Medicine Physician · Columbia, SC
• Dr. Raghav Nehru, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Brian Joseph Prattini, DO Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• John Cotton Shallcross, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Birmingham, AL
• Emma Twiner, PA-C Physician Assistant · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Frank E Wilklow, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Dr. Stacy Siegendorf, MD

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

• Michele Lee Simoneaux, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1174693188

  1430 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2632 · (504) 988-7518

• Dr. Diane Mary Sinclair, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1528196771

  2000 Lakeshore Dr Hpc 137A, New Orleans, LA 70148-0001 · (504) 280-6387

• Domonique Smith, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1568165769

  2021 Perdido St Ste 5128, New Orleans, LA 70112-1352 · (504) 568-5600

• Dr. Ernest Joseph Sneed Jr., MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1548367980

  New Orleans VA Outpatient Clinic 1601 Perdido St, New Orleans, LA 70112-1262 · (504) 568-0811

• Southern Belle Group Inc

  Organization Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1194047308

  1631 Elysian Fields Ave Ste B106, New Orleans, LA 70117-8208 · (504) 339-1149

• Miss. Melissa Ann Spera, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1346508256

  1542 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112 · (504) 538-5477

• Benjamin Springgate, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1477799880

  3525 Prytania St Ste 301, New Orleans, LA 70115-3518 · (504) 897-8118