MS. Kathryn Brunk Smiley, PA-C

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 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. Nelly Antoine Aoun, MD Specialist · Covington, LA
• Dr. William B. Bisland Jr., MD Surgery Physician · Thibodaux, LA
• Dr. William Bivin, MD Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician · Kenner, LA
• Jeanenne C Brignac, MD Family Medicine Physician · Pierre Part, LA
• Dr. Michael Edward Darin, MD Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Meredith Bordelon Ellis, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Houston, TX
• Ricki Lacoste Linarello, NP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Kenner, LA
• Michelle W. Lindsey, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Kenner, LA
• MS. Belinda D Miller, APRN-PMHNP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · New Orleans, LA
• Julie Ann Neumann, MD Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Barbara Rodriguez Rucker, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · New Orleans, LA
• Ronda Jacquelyn Sanders Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Sarah Kathryn Sherrel, PA

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1669623963

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

• Kendra Shy

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1689501868

  1 Drexel Dr, New Orleans, LA 70125-1056 · (504) 520-5119

• Shivani G Simmons, PA

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1679001408

  200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 4109, New Orleans, LA 70118-5720 · (504) 896-9740

• MS. Stephanie Winchell Simmons, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1316958481

  1601 Perdido St Slvhcs -New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70112-1262 · (504) 412-3700

• Samantha Maxwell Spansel, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1821545039

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-4721

• Kaitlyn Spencer, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1629644851

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-4021

• Daryl Floyd Stanga, PA-C

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1356549547

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

• Felicia Steele, PA

  Individual Physician Assistant · NPI 1669851523

  200 Henry Clay Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118-5720 · (504) 899-9511