Dr. Vernon Keith Rhynes, MD, FACS

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.

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.

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.

• Baton Rouge General Medical Center Hospital · Baton Rouge, LA
• Surgical Specialty Center Of Baton Rouge Hospital · Baton Rouge, LA

Colleagues at Baton Rouge General Physicians Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 189 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Savanna Lee Burns, DNP General Practice Registered Nurse · Baton Rouge, LA
• Caroline Lagrange Gilmore, RD, LDN Registered Dietitian · Baton Rouge, LA
• Mickey Graphia, MD Vascular Surgery Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Sunny Ghere Green, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Gonzales, LA
• Kristin Brooke Guidry, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Baton Rouge, LA
• Heather Burns Guillory, MN, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Baton Rouge, LA
• Russel Chase Landry, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Baton Rouge, LA
• Chenna Reddy Nalabolu, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Baton Rouge, LA
• Ashley Capace Perret, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Baton Rouge, LA
• Robert Sudduth Family Medicine Physician · Denham Springs, LA
• Madelyn Kaye Wilks Physician Assistant · Baton Rouge, LA
• Robert Clay Wood, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA

Other providers in Baton Rouge

• Our Lady of the Lake Advanced Health Solutions

  Organization Surgery Physician · NPI 1013231547

  7777 Hennessy Blvd Ste 612, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4300 · (225) 769-5656

• Jennifer Perone, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1518303106

  17050 Medical Center Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70816-3221 · (225) 761-5200

• Phillip P Crace MD FACS

  Organization Surgery Physician · NPI 1801263926

  10440 Hooper Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70818-3203 · (225) 930-0060

• Dr. Michael Kevin Puyau, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1467598102

  500 Rue De La Vie St Ste 402, Baton Rouge, LA 70817-5129 · (225) 924-7588

• Dr. Sidney Osborn Ross, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1962403972

  8595 Picardy Ave Ste 420, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3676 · (225) 763-4820

• Sbfmd, LLC

  Organization Surgery Physician · NPI 1720643208

  2651 June St, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-2066 · (225) 614-0470

• Philip R Schauer, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1952494262

  7777 Hennessy Blvd Ste 612, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4366 · (225) 769-5656

• Dr. Floyd Earl Scott Jr., MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1245269711

  7777 Hennessy Blvd Ste 102, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4363 · (225) 765-2048