Christina Ruth Sammons, 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.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician. Those with a page here are linked.

• Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport-St Mary Medical Cent Hospital · Shreveport, LA · listed as Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - St Mary Medical Center, LLC
• Ochsner Lsu Health Monroe Hospital · Monroe, LA
• 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.

• Gary Von Burton, MD Hematology & Oncology Physician · Shreveport, LA
• William A Byrd, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Brad Chauvin, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Mrs. Melanie Evon Fleming, FNP-BC Family Nurse Practitioner · Monroe, LA
• Naomi Ghildiyal, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Sahreen Husan Family Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Miguel Lopez Family Medicine Physician · Monroe, LA
• Jeannie R McCartney Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Kenner, LA
• Kalgi Modi, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Lisa R. Smith, CNM Women's Health Nurse Practitioner · Shreveport, LA
• Dr. Muhammad Waqas, MD Hospitalist Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Zhiyun Yang, MD Nuclear Radiology Physician · Shreveport, LA

Other providers in Shreveport

• Amir Neshatfar

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1821550831

  1501 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0434

• Arvin Parvathaneni, MD

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1063944460

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

• Muhammad Suhaib Qasim, MBBS

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1871090936

  1811 E Bert Kouns Industrial Loop Ste 120, Shreveport, LA 71105-5741 · (318) 212-2720

• Dr. Jayson Divino Rodriguez, MD

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1417278458

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

• Dr. Irene Scaltsas, MD

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1770587537

  417 Dru Cir, Shreveport, LA 71106-2311 · (318) 423-1048

• Gurleen Sikand, MD

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1396876801

  2551 Greenwood Rd Ste 240, Shreveport, LA 71103-3981 · (318) 212-8675

• Tri-State Neurology LLC

  Organization Neurology Physician · NPI 1326130931

  2551 Greenwood Rd Ste 240, Shreveport, LA 71103 · (318) 212-8675

• Fnu Vaibhav

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1780508044

  1501 Kings Hwy, Shreveport, LA 71103-4228 · (318) 626-0000