Claudia Guadalupe Santacruz, PA-C

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.

• St Catherine Hospital Inc Hospital · East Chicago, IN

Colleagues at 219 Health Network Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 70 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• MS. Saundra Gaye Clark, NP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Dyer, IN
• Jolene S. Gelarden, RN, MS, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Munster, IN
• Sami Ismail, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Cedar Lake, IN
• Amit Kakkar, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · East Chicago, IN
• Howard J Marcus, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Schererville, IN
• Maali Milhem, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · Munster, IN
• Zalak Patel, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · East Chicago, IN
• Lady Anne Margotte Plasabas, AGACNP-BC Gerontology Nurse Practitioner · East Chicago, IN
• Cristina Quiroz, AGPCNP-BC Registered Nurse · Highland, IN
• Lisa K. Richardson, MD Family Medicine Physician · Homewood, IL
• Natalie Renee Sessions, DO Internal Medicine Physician · South Bend, IN
• Amanda Stolarz, MSN, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Cedar Lake, IN

Other providers in East Chicago

• Filimon Ramos, PHYSICIANASSISTANT

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1962738914

  1313 W Chicago Ave, East Chicago, IN 46312-3316 · (219) 397-1196

• Mr. Gregory Brommett Stephenson, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1437363736

  4320 Fir St Ste 210, East Chicago, IN 46312-3052 · (219) 836-5464