Melissa B Russo, 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.

• Madison Alexander, PA-C Physician Assistant · Chalmette, LA
• Mitchell Cosse Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Abita Springs, LA
• Mrs. Rebecca Bullard Ezell, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Slidell, LA
• Dr. Jennifer Hudgens Fleming, DNP, APRN Family Nurse Practitioner · Terrytown, LA
• Jeanne Herman, OD Optometrist · New Orleans, LA
• Lauren O Landry, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Baton Rouge, LA
• Emily Lockhart Family Nurse Practitioner · Jefferson, LA
• Nicole May, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Baton Rouge, LA
• Roneisha Alexander McLendon, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Terrytown, LA
• Dr. Connor Gregory Policastro, MD Urology Physician · Winston Salem, NC
• Callie M Waskom, PA-C Physician Assistant · Baton Rouge, LA
• Christopher Wear Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Chadron Rose, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1639340235

  800 Common St Apt 907, New Orleans, LA 70112-2321 · (414) 305-4650

• Dr. Ryan Edward Rubin, MD, MPH

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1629106158

  1430 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112 · (504) 988-5904

• 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

• Vivek Sabharwal, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1497710230

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

• Luis F. Salcedo, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1326013194

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-3755

• 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