Karen Marie Fisher, 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. Those with a page here are linked.

• Christus Ochsner St Patrick Hospital Hospital · Lake Charles, LA · listed as Christus St Patrick Hospital
• Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Hospital · Lake Charles, LA · listed as Diabetes Education of Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
• Christus Ochsner Lake Area Hospital Hospital · Lake Charles, LA

Colleagues at Ochsner Clinic LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2842 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Gerges Samir Azer, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Raceland, LA
• Jennifer C Chamberlain, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Slidell, LA
• Robin Claire Davis, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Kenner, LA
• Susana Laura Dipp, MD Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Physician · Metairie, LA
• Dr. Irene Nwokolo Evuleocha, DPM Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Gerald Heintz, MD Psychiatry Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Ajsa Ana Sofija Nikolic, MD Family Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Timothy L Riddell, MD Family Medicine Physician · Mandeville, LA
• Scott Smith, LCSW Mental Health Counselor · New Orleans, LA
• Robert St John Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Birmingham, AL
• Dr. Robin B Stedman, MD Anesthesiology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Paul W Walker, MD Urology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA

Other providers in Lake Charles

• Cynthia J. Scott, MD

  Organization Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1033254362

  4150 Nelson Rd Bldg B-7, Lake Charles, LA 70605-4148 · (337) 474-3307

• David Paul Darbonne, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1366414666

  1890 W Gauthier Rd Ste 135, Lake Charles, LA 70605-7179 · (337) 480-5510

• David Darbonne, MD APMC

  Organization Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1801920236

  1890 W Gauthier Rd, Lake Charles, LA 70605-7179 · (337) 474-3883

• Eugene M Fontenot MD LLC

  Organization Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1154977197

  4150 Nelson Rd Bldg A Ste 1, Lake Charles, LA 70605 · (337) 474-2056

• Eugene Fontenot, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1275538993

  4150 Nelson Rd, Lake Charles, LA 70605-4148 · (337) 474-2056

• Dr. Candace Douglas Gilmore, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1497195747

  2000 Opelousas St, Lake Charles, LA 70601-2641 · (337) 439-9983

• Armand C. Grimshaw, MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1235119405

  1890 W Gauthier Rd Ste 135, Lake Charles, LA 70605-7179 · (337) 480-5510

• Dr. James William Groves Jr., MD

  Individual Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · NPI 1386859106

  1890 W Gauthier Rd Ste 130, Lake Charles, LA 70605-7179 · (337) 480-5530