Susan Barringer Smith, APRN, FNP-C, PNP-C

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.

Colleagues at Integrated Dermatology of Ponchatoula LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice.

• Dr. Robert W Benson, MD Dermatology Physician · Ponchatoula, LA
• Kimberly Paternostro Bordelon Family Nurse Practitioner · Ponchatoula, LA
• Dr. Falon Victoria Brown, DO Internal Medicine Physician · Ponchatoula, LA
• Caitlin Craddock Field, PA-C Physician Assistant · Baton Rouge, LA
• Nicholas Frank, MD Dermatology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Ashley Hotard, PA-C Physician Assistant · Hammond, LA
• MS. Kamryn Alise King, PA-C Medical Physician Assistant · Walker, LA
• Joseph Willis, MD Dermatology Physician · Metairie, LA

Other providers in Ponchatoula

• Lynn Jones Bikoi, NP

  Individual Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1023817426

  1668 Highway 51, Ponchatoula, LA 70454-6375 · (985) 401-4022

• Ariel Ortiz Dias, NP

  Individual Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1184422263

  1668 Highway 51, Ponchatoula, LA 70454-6375 · (985) 401-4022

• Fpm Holdings LLC

  Organization Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1134011729

  1668 Highway 51, Ponchatoula, LA 70454-6375 · (985) 401-4022

• Sandra C Thornhill, NP

  Individual Nurse Practitioner · NPI 1629035860

  180 N 5th St, Ponchatoula, LA 70454-2532 · (985) 370-7768