Latonya Woods, PMHNP-BC

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.

Colleagues at Lake Area Psychiatry LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 13 clinicians in the practice; 10 are shown here.

• Candyce Brown, APRN Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LA
• Melissa Lynn Brown, APRN Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Sulphur, LA
• Dr. David Buttross III, MD Psychiatry Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Bethanne Fondren Carson, PMHNP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LA
• Jon Guidry, MD Psychiatry Physician · Tyler, TX
• Mrs. Erica Hessifer, FPMHNP, APRN Psychiatry Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Cynthia Nassar, LPC, LMFT Professional Counselor · Lake Charles, LA
• Eric Spencer Rachal, APRN, PMHNP-BC Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LA
• Christy Elaine Smith, NP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LA
• Morgan Unser, PMHNP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LA

Other providers in Lake Charles

• Jacqueline Taylor, APRN, PMHNP-BC

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1902441827

  1924 Southwood Dr, Lake Charles, LA 70605-4131 · (337) 240-8162

• Morgan Unser, PMHNP

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1427833722

  333 Dr Michael Debakey Dr Ste 220, Lake Charles, LA 70601-5888 · (337) 478-9331

• MS. Sarah Walker

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1760825152

  1924 Southwood Dr, Lake Charles, LA 70605-4131 · (337) 240-8162

• Brittaney Wise-Wilridge, PHMNP

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1518837541

  751 Bayou Pines East Dr Ste P, Lake Charles, LA 70601-7196 · (337) 513-4844