Megan Kushner

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.

• Dr. Miguel Angel Aguilera Jr., MD General Practice Physician · Metairie, LA
• Dr. Edward I Bluth, MD Diagnostic Radiology Physician · Covington, LA
• Michael Castine, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Gretna, LA
• Caroline Cotten, PA-C Physician Assistant · New Orleans, LA
• Colette Dominique, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Maren Kristine Gregersen, MD Neurology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Andrew Hebert, FNP Nurse Practitioner · New Orleans, LA
• William Forrest Johnston, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. George B Morris III, MD Obstetrics Physician · Harahan, LA
• Dr. Marilyn C Ray, MD Dermatology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Claudia Maria Rivera Clinical Social Worker · Marrero, LA
• Paul A. Rogers, MD, PHD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Mrs. Kayla Mason Kerlec, RN

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1720705478

  2700 Napoleon Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115-6914 · (504) 339-2971

• Randi Mischel Kihnel, APRN, ACCNS-AG

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1124655535

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-3910

• Taytum Knox

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1669267845

  6221 S Claiborne Ave Ste 537, New Orleans, LA 70125-4142 · (833) 342-1454

• Gilpreet Kooner

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1750198727

  2519 Laurel St, New Orleans, LA 70130-5523 · (210) 639-4352

• Bethany Lamp, CRNA

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1356909790

  1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2600 · (504) 988-6958

• Brooke Langley, RN

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1003788704

  2820 Napoleon Ave Ste 620, New Orleans, LA 70115-8206 · (520) 894-2182

• Darlene Latiker

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1194203133

  3601 Coliseum St Fl 6, New Orleans, LA 70115-3606 · (504) 644-2482

• Mrs. Cheryl Ann Lear, RN, MSN

  Individual Registered Nurse · NPI 1336474477

  2221 Philip St, New Orleans, LA 70113-2525 · (504) 568-6650