Vyas Ramuhalli Rao, MD

Procedures

From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period. CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because CMS withholds small numbers.

The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures volume, not outcomes or skill.

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. Those with a page here are linked.

• Willis Knighton Medical Center Hospital · Shreveport, LA · listed as Willis Knighton Medical Center, Inc
• Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport Hospital · Shreveport, LA

Colleagues at LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport Faculty Group Practice

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 569 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Adrian Paul Abreo, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Pratik Agrawal Internal Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Tahir Ahmad Diagnostic Radiology Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Dr. Russell Scott Anderson, MD Radiation Oncology Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Kshitij Satnamdas Arora Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Jennifer B Cypher, PA-C Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LA
• Elizabeth Diana Gentry - Breen, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Monroe, LA
• Aya Mouhaffel, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Arthur Eldridge Richert, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Monroe, LA
• Susan Michelle Self, MD Family Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Susan Lenora Steen, PA Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LA
• Dr. Andrew M Werner, MD Colon & Rectal Surgery Physician · Shreveport, LA

Other providers in Shreveport

• Dr. William Lewis Norwood Jr., MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1760486609

  2751 Albert Bicknell Dr Ste 3A, Shreveport, LA 71103-3976 · (318) 636-9905

• David J Pennywell, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1588956957

  1541 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0000

• Dr. Paul E Perkowski, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1053301150

  1541 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0000

• Rohit Ranganath, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1700147360

  1501 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 675-6126

• Kathryn Arlene Richardson, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1326061953

  1501 Kings Hwy Dept OF Surgery, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 813-2655

• Charles M Richart, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1194764985

  1541 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0000

• Dr. Shane Michael Rinehart, DO

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1326260845

  1541 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0000

• Dr. Ramon Antonio Laserna Romero, MD

  Individual Surgery Physician · NPI 1770503559

  1501 Kings Hwy Dept OF Surgery, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 813-2655