Dr. Kaitlin Elizabeth Occhipinti, MD

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1578656815

Dr. Kaitlin Elizabeth Occhipinti, MD practises Gastroenterology in Metairie, Louisiana. Graduated from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 2006, 20 years ago. Practices with Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund, a 393-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Louisiana.

Years since qualifying: 20
Trained at: Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
Licensed in: LA
In the registry since: 2006
Specialties on file: 2

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MD — Doctor of Medicine: A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

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Practice location Address checks out

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Metairie, LA

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Specialties & licences

Gastroenterology Physician (primary)	Taxonomy 207RG0100X · Licence 203630 (LA)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number	1578656815
Entity type	Individual (Type 1)
Gender	Female
Credentials	MD
Sole proprietor	No
NPI enumerated	September 30, 2006
Last updated in NPPES	July 23, 2013

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialty	GASTROENTEROLOGY
Also practises	INTERNAL MEDICINE
Medical school	LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN NEW ORLEANS
Graduated	2006 (20 years in practice)
Group practice	Administrators Of The Tulane Educational Fund — 393 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment	Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Practice locations	2 on file with Medicare

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.

Colonoscopy	1–10 times
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux	1–10 times

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.

Medicare patients	24
Services billed	33 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age	67

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.

Food and Beverage	$689 33 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

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 Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 393 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

David Michael Becnel, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Gainesville, FL
Jorge Caso, MD Urology Physician · New Orleans, LA
Sarah Johnson Cossich, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
Taylor Marie Fontenot, MD Surgical Critical Care Physician · Metairie, LA
Matthew T Hurford, MD Hematology (Pathology) Physician · New Orleans, LA
Yazan Subhi Juma, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
Dr. Diala Khirfan, MBBS Transplant Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
Dr. Joseph Lasky, MD Pulmonary Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA
MS. Swati Rao, MD Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician · Charleston, SC
Fredric Gary Regenstein, MD Hepatology Physician · Kansas City, MO
Mr. Krishna Chandra Vemulapalli, MD Orthopaedic Trauma Physician · New Orleans, LA
Crystal Zheng, MD Infectious Disease Physician · Bronx, NY

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