Howard Patrick Ragland, MD

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.

• 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.

• Christine Marie Bojanowski, MD Internal Medicine Physician · LA Jolla, CA
• Emily Lacy Coleman, MD Dermatology Physician · Little Rock, AR
• Dr. Jessica Marie Debord, MD Pediatrics Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Molly Beth Delk, MD Gastroenterology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Wendell Heard Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dragana Lovre, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Marlowe M Maylin, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Holly Colleen Rutherford, MD Neurology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Michael Sciaudone, MD Infectious Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Mohamed Ahmed Shama, MD, MSC, MRCS, EBSQ Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck (Otolaryngology) Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Puneet Singha, MD Diagnostic Radiology Physician · Metairie, LA
• Taylor Wearda, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Dr. Julie Mermilliod, MD

  Individual Dermatology Physician · NPI 1578514808

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-4000

• Dr. Sharon S Meyer, MD

  Individual Dermatology Physician · NPI 1518934611

  3434 Prytania St Ste 310, New Orleans, LA 70115-3532 · (504) 897-5899

• Katherine Moody, MD

  Individual Dermatology Physician · NPI 1831658038

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (866) 627-7637

• Patrick J Quinlan, MD

  Individual Dermatology Physician · NPI 1184718892

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-4000

• Dr. Marilyn C Ray, MD

  Individual Dermatology Physician · NPI 1598711848

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-4000

• Richard N Sherman MD APMC

  Organization Dermatology Physician · NPI 1649563420

  3627 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70115-2544 · (504) 899-7159

• Sharon S. Meyer, MD, LLC

  Organization Dermatology Physician · NPI 1609098912

  3434 Prytania St Ste 310 Sharon S Meyer MD Llc, New Orleans, LA 70115-3532 · (504) 897-5899

• Dr. Richard N. Sherman, MD

  Individual Dermatology Physician · NPI 1700889177

  2633 Napoleon Ave Ste 815, New Orleans, LA 70115-7412 · (504) 899-7158