James Shute, 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.

• Ochsner Medical Center Acute Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center
• Our Lady Of The Angels Hospital Hospital · Bogalusa, LA · listed as Our Lady of the Angels Hospital, Inc
• St Tammany Parish Hospital Hospital · Covington, LA · listed as St Tammany Parish Hospital Distric #1

Colleagues at St Tammany Parish Hospital Service District No 1

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 163 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Caroline Barkerding, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Zachary, LA
• Dr. Mae M. Dumlao, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Covington, LA
• Dr. Constance M Gistand, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Marrero, LA
• Dr. Karmynah Marie Wilnetta Helaire, MD, MPH General Practice Physician · Bogalusa, LA
• Dr. Jim Aubrey Jones, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Mark Gregory Jones, MD Surgery Physician · Covington, LA
• Dr. Alisha Marie Lacour, MD Hospitalist Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Kimberly Langhoff Marcel, APRHN, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Hammond, LA
• MS. Wendy Anne Pratt, APRN-FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Covington, LA
• Karolina Diana Ruthner, APRN Family Nurse Practitioner · Covington, LA
• Mary M. Scheyd, NP Adult Health Nurse Practitioner · Covington, LA
• Dr. Scott Patrick Striplin, MD Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Covington, LA

Other providers in Covington

• Kevin Christopher Plaisance, MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1730179839

  100O Ochsner Blvd, Covington, LA 70433-8107 · (985) 875-2828

• Ryan Rougelot

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1861069551

  1202 S Tyler St, Covington, LA 70433-2330 · (985) 898-4194

• Julie Scott, MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1871164913

  17240 Heartbeat Cir, Covington, LA 70435-5757 · (985) 898-4001

• Dr. Rome Abdul Sherrod III, MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1184658999

  73153 Military Rd, Covington, LA 70435-6054 · (985) 626-6133

• Dr. Joseph Leonard Singleton, MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1174549851

  73153 Military Rd, Covington, LA 70435-6054 · (985) 626-6133

• Eleanor C Smith, MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1255906681

  17240 Heartbeat Cir, Covington, LA 70435-5757 · (985) 898-4001

• Mary Kelli Smith, MD

  Individual Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1962451518

  1000 Ochsner Blvd, Covington, LA 70433-8107 · (985) 898-7150

• Treanor MD, LLC

  Organization Family Medicine Physician · NPI 1437454519

  20050 Crestwood Blvd, Covington, LA 70433-5207 · (985) 875-7525