Dr. Vecihi Batuman, 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.

• East Jefferson General Hospital Hospital · Metairie, LA

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.

• Dr. Luis Roberto Arencibia, MD Family Medicine Physician · Metairie, LA
• Dr. Babak Kazemzadeh Azad, MD Urology Physician · Orange, CA
• MS. Amber Verdun Bailey, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · Metairie, LA
• Sapna Vinod Desai, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Metairie, LA
• Robert Galagan, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Mary T Killackey, MD Transplant Surgery Physician · Metairie, LA
• George Alexander Knight, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Bonnie Koepp, FNP Primary Care Nurse Practitioner · Covington, LA
• Dr. Jeffrey N Lackey, MD MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician · Bethesda, MD
• Cassandra Jo Lentz, MD Psychiatry Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Casimir Lorenc, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Mohammad Tahboub Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Kansas City, MO

Other providers in New Orleans

• Dr. Arnold B. Alper Jr., MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1477509107

  1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2600 · (504) 988-5838

• Dr. Saddam Alqussairy, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1184400996

  1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2600 · (504) 988-2893

• Anthony Lama, MD, APMC

  Organization Nephrology Physician · NPI 1518120815

  3439 Prytania St Ste 500, New Orleans, LA 70115-3536 · (504) 897-5528

• Nahida Baigam, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1427839356

  2000 Canal St, New Orleans, LA 70112-3018 · (504) 568-2370

• Adrian J Baudy IV, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1154555654

  1430 Tulane Ave # SL-50, New Orleans, LA 70112-2632 · (504) 988-5346

• Rhea Bhargava

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1245573310

  1430 Tulane Ave # 8545, New Orleans, LA 70112-2632 · (504) 988-5352

• Shirisha Bodana, DO

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1770794067

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

• Crispin G. Bolisay, MD APMC

  Organization Nephrology Physician · NPI 1124217872

  1340 Poydras St Ste 1850, New Orleans, LA 70112-1221 · (504) 679-9901