David Elkind Hirsch

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.

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

Colleagues at Wk Spine and Pain Specialists

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 12 clinicians in the practice; 10 are shown here.

• Sarah Carson Brantley, PA Medical Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LA
• Tyra Brown, PA-C Physician Assistant · Jefferson, LA
• Hillary Davis, PA Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LA
• Kelsey Austin Ellender-Barthel, PA Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LA
• Nancy Clearkin Germany, MD Family Medicine Physician · Shreveport, LA
• Emily K. Leblanc, PA Surgical Physician Assistant · Bossier City, LA
• Mrs. Stephanie Hunt Ledoux, PA Physician Assistant · Shreveport, LA
• Dr. John G Noles, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Bossier City, LA
• Bridget Whittington, PA-C Medical Physician Assistant · Bossier City, LA
• Mrs. Jordan Cage Wyatt, PA-C Physician Assistant · Bossier City, LA

Other providers in Bossier City

• Ahp of Western Louisana, LLC

  Organization Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1689829400

  2105 Airline Dr, Bossier City, LA 71111-3105 · (318) 549-2011

• Ahp of Western Louisiana LLC

  Organization Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1740430156

  2105 Airline Dr, Bossier City, LA 71111-3105 · (318) 549-2011

• Alfonso Aquino, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1063479681

  1701 Old Minden Rd Ste 20, Bossier City, LA 71111-4846 · (870) 897-5333

• Erika Lacroix, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1922693837

  2400 Hospital Dr, Bossier City, LA 71111-2385 · (318) 212-7000

• Dr. John G Noles, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1417937012

  2449 Hospital Dr Ste 300, Bossier City, LA 71111-1910 · (318) 212-3636

• Macey Sutherland, DO

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1548849268

  2400 Hospital Dr, Bossier City, LA 71111-2385 · (318) 212-7000