Dr. Maurice Gerald Sholas, MD, PHD

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 Ochsner Clinic LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2842 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Layla Alizadeh, MD Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Caroline Lee Berman Dermatology Physician · Slidell, LA
• Dr. Karen B Blessey, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Maretta Daniel, MSN, APN, NP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Gonzales, LA
• Dr. Frederick W Dantagnan IV, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Metairie, LA
• Leslie G Guitart, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · New Orleans, LA
• Ronald Dale Leblanc, MD Hematology & Oncology Physician · Slidell, LA
• Dr. Alexander Kenneth Mulamula, MD Pulmonary Disease Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Mr. Edward Hampton Rutland, MD Urology Physician · West Monroe, LA
• Ashley Darnell Staton, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Philip Karstin Taylor, DO Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Mary Yu, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in Atlanta

• Pratik Sandesara, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1033452354

  1364 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322-1059 · (404) 727-5658

• Dr. Hassan S Sayegh, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1194732297

  275 Collier Rd NW 500, Atlanta, GA 30309-1709 · (404) 605-2800

• Charles D Searles, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1588752653

  80 Jesse Hill Jr Dr SE, Atlanta, GA 30303-3031 · (404) 616-6719

• Mustaphasahim H Shaaraoui, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1124111349

  275 Collier Rd NW Ste 500, Atlanta, GA 30309-1709 · (404) 605-2800

• Steven R Sigman, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1134138241

  6115 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd Ste 300, Atlanta, GA 30328-7274 · (404) 851-5400

• Barry David Silverman, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1104810621

  5670 Peachtree Dunwoody Rd Ste 880, Atlanta, GA 30342-1699 · (404) 256-2525

• Dr. Rajeev Singh, MD

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1194169417

  95 Collier Rd NW Ste 3000, Atlanta, GA 30309-1721 · (404) 605-5422

• William H Smiley, DO

  Individual Cardiovascular Disease Physician · NPI 1154434355

  1525 Clifton Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30322-4200 · (404) 778-2746