Stephen L Menendez, PMHNP, APRN, MSN

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.

• North Oaks Medical Center Hospital · Hammond, LA · listed as North Oaks Medical Center, LLC

Colleagues at Florida Parishes Human Services Authority

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 39 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• MS. Sharon Mote Badon, LCSW Clinical Social Worker · Mandeville, LA
• Debra G Belanger, LCSW-BACS Clinical Social Worker · Hammond, LA
• Mrs. Melody L Bennett, LPC, LMFT Marriage & Family Therapist · Hammond, LA
• Kristine Berger, LCSW Clinical Social Worker · Hammond, LA
• Mr. Ashley Camp, PMHNP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Denham Springs, LA
• Mrs. Linda Hartdegen, LCSW-BACS Clinical Social Worker · Slidell, LA
• MS. Elisa Hope Himel, PMHNP Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner · Hammond, LA
• Miss. Trudy McLain, LPC Professional Counselor · Bogalusa, LA
• MS. Shanmugan Shantha, MD Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Physician · Mandeville, LA
• John F Strain, LPC Professional Counselor · Mandeville, LA
• Enricka Thomas, LCSW-BACS Clinical Social Worker · Denham Springs, LA
• Mrs. Nancy Wiley, LCSW Addiction (Substance Use Disorder) Counselor · Slidell, LA

Other providers in Hammond

• MS. Nancy June Gephart, RN

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse · NPI 1881747350

  15785 Medical Arts Dr, Hammond, LA 70403-1447 · (985) 543-4080

• Deborah Jane Hextall, RNBC

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse · NPI 1457404949

  835 Pride Dr Ste B, Hammond, LA 70401-9527 · (985) 543-4730

• Mrs. Kirsten Lind, RN

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse · NPI 1184005118

  835 Pride Dr Ste B, Hammond, LA 70401-9527 · (985) 543-4333

• Sonjia McVay, APRN

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse · NPI 1720786189

  45388 Britt Ln, Hammond, LA 70401-4409 · (985) 507-8191

• Larry James Smith

  Individual Psychiatric/Mental Health Registered Nurse · NPI 1144933649

  44617 S Airport Rd Ste C&d, Hammond, LA 70403-0311 · (985) 348-5059