J David West, 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.

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.

• Amedisys Home Health Home health agency · Baton Rouge, LA · listed as Amedisys Home Health, Inc of Alabama
• Audubon Home Health Home health agency · Baton Rouge, LA · listed as Audubon Home Health Inc
• Our Lady Of The Lake Regional Medical Center Hospital · Baton Rouge, LA
• Baton Rouge General Home Health Home health agency · Baton Rouge, LA
• Cardinal Hospice Hospice · Baton Rouge, LA

Colleagues at Baton Rouge Clinic, a Medical Corporation

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 285 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Casey Battaglia Carlisle, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Sanjay Chaudhuri, MD Psychiatry Physician · Monroe, LA
• Dr. Shavaun Venoris Cotton, MD, MPH Family Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Nicholas Emile Frisard, MD Ophthalmology Physician · Metairie, LA
• James Andrew Froelich, MD Surgery Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Venu Babu Kakarala, MD Rural Health Clinic/Center · Slaughter, LA
• Dr. Theresa J Ross, MD General Practice Physician · Monroe, LA
• Gaetano Trey Ruggiero III, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Baton Rouge, LA
• Holly Elizabeth Smith, PLPC Professional Counselor · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Tyler Theriot, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Holland Hardison Watts, AUDIOLOGIST Audiologist · Baton Rouge, LA
• Linzee Sumrall Zeringue, PA Physician Assistant · Lafayette, LA

Other providers in Baton Rouge

• Morgan Walker

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1417301961

  5246 Brittany Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 · (337) 962-8526

• Wilson Lee-Shu Wang, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1740203603

  7777 Hennessy Blvd Ste 1000, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4300 · (225) 767-3900

• Kimberly R Washington, DO

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1417936378

  3333 Drusilla Ln, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-2418 · (225) 924-3906

• Dr. Kirk Howell Webster, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1316061088

  1770 Physicians Park Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70816 · (225) 756-3709

• Dr. James Randolph Westerfield, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1649271511

  5000 Hennessy Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4375 · (225) 765-4050

• John Scott Wharton, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1427087527

  7373 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4326 · (225) 769-4044

• Patricia D. Whatley, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1013124759

  7373 Perkins Rd Attn: Dee / Administration, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4326 · (225) 769-4044

• Robert Clay Wood, MD

  Individual Internal Medicine Physician · NPI 1619955408

  8595 Picardy Ave Ste 100, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3670 · (225) 763-4900