Joshua Nathaniel Pahng, MD, PHD

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. Those with a page here are linked.

• East Jefferson General Hospital Hospital · Metairie, LA
• Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Center Hospital · Baton Rouge, LA

Colleagues at Lsuhn Billing LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 199 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Christopher Joseph Christensen, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Frederick D. Hall, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Lafayette, LA
• Dr. Farha Khan, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Lafayette, LA
• Jessica Jarreau Lacombe, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Oleana Naomi Lamendola, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Ronald Anthony Leo, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Ashwin Narayana, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Lafayette, LA
• George William Poche, MD Dermatology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Mark Douglas Porta Jr. Internal Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Neelima Sukhavasi Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Houston, TX
• Katie Veron Taylor, MD Infectious Disease Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Robert Joseph Thibodaux Jr., MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Baton Rouge, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Daniel Nelson

  Individual Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1558895227

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-3995

• An Hoai Nguyen

  Individual Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1508007576

  5646 Read Blvd Ste 180, New Orleans, LA 70127-3106 · (504) 383-5518

• Nola Ophthalmology Inc

  Organization Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1710356878

  5646 Read Blvd Ste 180, New Orleans, LA 70127-3106 · (504) 383-5518

• Dr. Jonathan Nussdorf, MD

  Individual Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1407801517

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

• Dr. Sanford Lynn Pailet, MD

  Individual Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1760653083

  625 Saint Charles Ave #9A, New Orleans, LA 70130-3400 · (504) 527-0123

• Dr. Sagar Ramesh Patel, MD

  Individual Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1134309172

  1430 Tulane Ave SL69, New Orleans, LA 70112-2632 · (504) 988-2261

• Randy P Bouligny MD

  Organization Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1063768216

  1100 Poydras St Ste 2900, New Orleans, LA 70163-1101 · (504) 799-2219

• Rudolph M Franklin, MD

  Organization Ophthalmology Physician · NPI 1285807792

  3239 Gentilly Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70122-4923 · (985) 641-9900