Luis F. Salcedo, 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.

• Ochsner Medical Center Acute Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center

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.

• Frank R Cerniglia Jr., MD Urology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Janet White Cook, MD Family Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• John Alfred Evans, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Sean Robert Fitzsimmons, NP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · New Orleans, LA
• Lora Kahn, MD Neurological Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• John David Linson, OD Optometrist · Covington, LA
• Katherine M Loftfield, MD Ophthalmology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Melissa Bagwell Love, MD Family Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• John P McCrossen, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Kenner, LA
• Ahna Alisia Patterson, PA-C Physician Assistant · Denton, TX
• Jason A Rigol, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Slidell, LA
• Dr. John Joseph Walsh Jr., MD Specialist · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Dionne Rudison, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1376989723

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121 · (504) 842-5300

• Brad David Rupe, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1841346277

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

• Melissa B Russo, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1205031531

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

• Vivek Sabharwal, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1497710230

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2139 · (504) 842-4000

• Dr. Alan C Santos, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1740221282

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

• Randolph E. Sassone, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1952481582

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

• Sheryl Sawatsky, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1609961663

  200 Henry Clay Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118-5720 · (504) 896-9456

• Armin Schubert, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1558326827

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