Mrs. Tara Blake Comardelle, CRNA, MNNA, BSN

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 Anesthesiology Group Associates Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 157 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Vickie Shaw Easley, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA
• Lauren Fisher, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Brennan Leblanc, CRNA Registered Nurse · Baton Rouge, LA
• Netra M Mitchell, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · New Orleans, LA
• Mrs. Alicia Cooper Newman, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Prairieville, LA
• Phillip L Putnam, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA
• John Rumfellow, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. James L. Sharpless Jr., MD Anesthesiology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Jake Spier Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Aubrey Thompson, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA
• Matthew Venable Registered Nurse · Greenwell Springs, LA
• Evan White, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA

Other providers in Geismar

• Mr. Kevin Lee Gatlin, CRNA

  Individual Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · NPI 1083605372

  12393 Old Millstone Dr, Geismar, LA 70734-3238 · (225) 673-1736