Kristi F Simon, CRNA

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 Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans Faculty G

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 447 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Rajasree Pia Chowdry, MD Hematology & Oncology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Carlos Galvani, MD Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Corey Gregg, MD Hospitalist Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Patrick Greiffenstein, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Sarah Elizabeth Griffin, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Jorge Alan Martinez, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Michael David Modica, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Lucido Luciano Ponce Mejia, MD Diagnostic Radiology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. James Michael Riopelle, MD Anesthesiology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Marie E Unruh, MD Surgery Physician · South Bend, IN
• Dr. Milena Vukelic, MD Rheumatology Physician · Bronx, NY
• Dr. James Christopher Watson, MD Surgical Oncology Physician · Sellersville, PA

Other providers in Metairie

• Mrs. Amy Elizabeth Scott, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1871824078

  4430 Veterans Memorial Blvd, Metairie, LA 70006-5329 · (866) 624-7637

• Gayle Bellanger Sewell, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1780980672

  3510 N Causeway Blvd Ste 404, Metairie, LA 70002-3531 · (504) 779-5515

• David Vernon Shaver Jr., CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1184668188

  3510 N Causeway Blvd Ste 404, Metairie, LA 70002-3531 · (504) 779-5568

• Sydney Love Siekmann

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1306565775

  433 Nursery Ave, Metairie, LA 70005-3533 · (225) 276-8918

• Thomas Smithers, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1811926371

  3510 N Causeway Blvd Ste 404, Metairie, LA 70002 · (504) 779-5515

• Corey James Sonnier, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1760435895

  3510 N Causeway Blvd, Metairie, LA 70002-3531 · (504) 779-5515

• Stat Anesthesia Inc

  Organization Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1295954212

  3900 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 100, Metairie, LA 70002-5634 · (504) 455-1550

• James Kenneth Sticker, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1225085616

  3510 N Causeway Blvd, Metairie, LA 70002-3531 · (504) 779-5515