Dr. Bekir H Melek, 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.

• Ochsner Medical Center Acute Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center
• Riverside Medical Center Hospital · Franklinton, LA
• St Tammany Parish Hospital Hospital · Covington, LA · listed as St Tammany Parish Hospital Distric #1

Colleagues at Ochsner Clinic LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2842 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Jarret Brashear Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Kenner, LA
• Jeffrey Allen Conyers Cytopathology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Ivory Crittendon III, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Kelly Elizabeth Dixon, LCSW Clinical Social Worker · New Orleans, LA
• Elizabeth Marie Gosciniak, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Whitney Elizabeth Hardy, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Marrero, LA
• Amanda Cristine Henne, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Julie Lagarde Landry, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Covington, LA
• Sara McConnell Internal Medicine Physician · Covington, LA
• Heidi B. Murray, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Luling, LA
• Adrienne Phillips Ray, MD Anesthesiology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Amanda Nicole Szeltner, APRN Registered Nurse · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in Covington

• Frank J Arena MD, APMC

  Organization Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1033549225

  1970 N Highway 190 Ste 100, Covington, LA 70433-5158 · (985) 867-8585

• Lakeview Cardiology Specialists, LLC

  Organization Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1013344027

  101 Judge Tanner Blvd Ste 106, Covington, LA 70433-7503 · (985) 892-8959

• Gabriel Lasala, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1477534295

  101 Judge Tanner Blvd Ste 300, Covington, LA 70433-7506 · (985) 867-2100

• Dr. James E Mace, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1326098062

  1203 S Tyler St Ste E, Covington, LA 70433-2353 · (985) 871-6020

• Leonardo Orejarena, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1932153376

  1000 Ochsner Blvd, Covington, LA 70433-8107 · (985) 875-2828

• Dr. Umesh A Patel, MD, FACC

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1629070826

  39 Starbrush Cir, Covington, LA 70433-7304 · (985) 871-4155

• Dale A Presser III, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1922062512

  100 Innwood Dr, Covington, LA 70433 · (985) 273-3035

• Dr. Russell Joseph Reed, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1487852034

  1006 S Harrison St, Covington, LA 70433 · (985) 871-4140