Lauren Paige Best, MD

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.

• Holy Cross Hospital Hospital · Silver Spring, MD

Colleagues at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid Atlantic States, Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 1934 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Florence V Deza, MD Family Medicine Physician · Baltimore, MD
• Dr. Eric Scott Grenier, MD Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Fort Belvoir, VA
• Sarah Beth Lichenstein Family Medicine Physician · Baltimore, MD
• Dr. Jesse K Liu, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Falls Church, VA
• Dr. Jonathan Craig McCauley, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Gaithersburg, MD
• Dr. Fiona F Meller Azrieli, MD Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · Halethorpe, MD
• MS. Robin D. Morris, LCSW-C Clinical Social Worker · Hagerstown, MD
• Dr. David N Schrier, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Alexandria, VA
• Melanie Tarutani, OD Optometrist · Kayenta, AZ
• Dr. Ashlee Metcalf Williams, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Washington, DC
• Jesse Wilson, DO Neurology Physician · Cleveland, OH
• Dr. Colleen M Zanis, DO Psychiatry Physician · Rockville, MD

Other providers in Silver Spring

• Eskinder Afework, MD

  Individual Emergency Medicine Physician · NPI 1912938408

  200 Linton Knoll Ct, Silver Spring, MD 20904-1270 · (301) 879-7427

• Cep America LLC

  Organization Emergency Medicine Physician · NPI 1851286041

  1500 Forest Glen Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-1460 · (301) 754-7000

• Dr. Henry Chilin Chu, MD

  Individual Emergency Medicine Physician · NPI 1306853072

  1500 Forest Glen Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-1483 · (301) 754-7503

• Dr. James Anthony Del-Vecchio, MD

  Individual Emergency Medicine Physician · NPI 1912948522

  1500 Forest Glen Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-1483 · (301) 754-7897

• Brandon Fong, MD

  Individual Emergency Medicine Physician · NPI 1326601972

  1500 Forest Glen Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20910-1460 · (301) 754-8500