Dr. Matthew Linger, MD

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1588009468

Dr. Matthew Linger, MD practises General Surgery in Alexandria, Louisiana. Graduated from Rutgers R W Johnson Medical School (CAM/NEW Bruns/Pisc) in 2013, 13 years ago. Practices with Rapides Regional Physician Group, Specialty Care, LLC, a 42-clinician group and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Louisiana.

Years since qualifying: 13
Trained at: Rutgers R W Johnson Medical School (CAM/NEW Bruns/Pisc)
Licensed in: LA
In the registry since: 2013
Specialties on file: 2

What do these letters mean?

MD — Doctor of Medicine: A physician who completed allopathic medical school.

See every abbreviation used in this directory →

Claim this listing Report a problem Suggest an edit

Practice location Address checks out

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Alexandria, LA

No coordinates on file. Search this address in Google Maps

Specialties & licences

Surgery Physician (primary)	Taxonomy 208600000X · Licence 308340 (LA)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program	Taxonomy 390200000X

Record details

NPI number	1588009468
Entity type	Individual (Type 1)
Gender	Male
Credentials	MD
Sole proprietor	No
NPI enumerated	May 6, 2013
Last updated in NPPES	March 12, 2019

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialty	GENERAL SURGERY
Medical school	RUTGERS R W JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL (CAM/NEW BRUNS/PISC)
Graduated	2013 (13 years in practice)
Group practice	Rapides Regional Physician Group, Specialty Care, Llc — 42 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment	Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount

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.

Colonoscopy	1–10 times
Hernia repair - groin (open)	1–10 times
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux	1–10 times

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.

Medicare patients	154
Services billed	499 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age	72

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.

Food and Beverage	$108 4 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

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.

Rapides Regional Medical Center Hospital · Alexandria, LA
Lasalle General Hospital Hospital · Jena, LA

Colleagues at Rapides Regional Physician Group, Specialty Care, LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 42 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

Mr. James Brian Broussard, PA Surgical Physician Assistant · Alexandria, LA
Benjamin Coffey, ACNPC-AG Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Alexandria, LA
Juan Roberto Garcia Nurse Practitioner · Lubbock, TX
Garett G Guilbeau, PA-C Physician Assistant · Alexandria, LA
Morgan Alexis Hall, NP Nurse Practitioner · Alexandria, LA
Lauren Deroche Harris, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Shreveport, LA
Robert Lewis Meadows, PA-C Surgical Physician Assistant · Alexandria, LA
Dr. Abigail Nateeka Morris, MBBS Surgery Physician · Alexandria, LA
MS. Jennifer S Osborne, ACNPC-AG Critical Care Medicine Nurse Practitioner · Shreveport, LA
David L Robbins Jr., MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Pittsburg, KS
Mrs. Maranda Trotti Voorhies, WHNP Nurse Practitioner · Alexandria, LA
Tiffany Teal Williams, APRN, FNP-C Registered Nurse · Alexandria, LA

Other providers in Alexandria

Mr. Roderick Dannte Henry Jr.

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1467342881

Student / training record Alexandria, LA
Mrs. Amber Hope Jenkins, BSN, RN

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1396677845

Student / training record Alexandria, LA
Neik Khansari

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1043951288

Student / training record Alexandria, LA
Dr. Harry James Lenaburg Jr., MD

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1992937676

Student / training record Alexandria, LA
Morris Lottinger

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1376463554

Student / training record Alexandria, LA
Richard Keith Manuel

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1538094875

Student / training record Alexandria, LA
Joseph Charles Marrazzo, MD

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1720491533

Student / training record Alexandria, LA
Kelsay Dawne McCoy

Individual Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1508530767

Student / training record Alexandria, LA