Shobha N. Joshi, 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 Lafayette General Medical Center Hospital · Lafayette, LA · listed as Lafayette General Medical Center Inc
• Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge Hospital · Baton Rouge, LA · listed as East Baton Rouge Medical Center LLC
• Ochsner Medical Center Acute Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center
• Ochsner Medical Center-Hancock Hospital · Bay Saint Louis, MS · listed as Ochsner Medical Center - Hancock LLC
• Slidell Memorial Hospital Hospital · Slidell, LA

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.

• Mirza Khaleeluddin Baig, MD Family Medicine Physician · Jefferson, LA
• Dr. Nicholas D Cappadona, MD Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · Jefferson, LA
• Mr. Aaron Coulon, MD Dermatology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Mrs. Erin Gill, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Covington, LA
• Mrs. Amy Phillips Gonzalez, PA Physician Assistant · Covington, LA
• Dr. Duncan Hanby, MD Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Mrs. Allison P Martin, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Slidell, LA
• Sarah Melinda Mason, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · New Orleans, LA
• Melissa C Matte, MD Anesthesiology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Christopher Mercadel Jr., PA Physician Assistant · New Orleans, LA
• William Ashton Sloan General Acute Care Hospital · Jefferson, LA
• Miss. Melissa Ann Spera, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA

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• Dr. John James Hutchings, MD

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• Dr. Kayin Jeffers, MD

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• Dr. Virendra Joshi, MD

  Individual Gastroenterology Physician · NPI 1295828507

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• Thomas K. Judd, MD

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• Dr. Abdul Mateen Khan, MD

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• Dr. Geoffrey Allen Kitzman, MD

  Individual Gastroenterology Physician · NPI 1184893463

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