Michael A Puente, 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.

• East Jefferson General Hospital Hospital · Metairie, LA
• Ochsner Medical Center Acute Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Ochsner Medical Center
• Touro Infirmary Hospital · New Orleans, LA
• University Medical Center New Orleans Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Louisiana State University
• West Jefferson Medical Center Hospital · Marrero, LA
• Central Home Health, Llc Home health agency · New Orleans, LA
• Egan Ochsner Home Health New Orleans Home health agency · Harahan, LA

Also affiliated with 1 inpatient rehabilitation facility, which CMS identifies by certification number only.

Colleagues at New Orleans Physician Services Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 175 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Scott J. Acosta, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Marrero, LA
• Hernan Adames, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Marrero, LA
• Mrs. Juanita Alexander-Sallier, PA Medical Physician Assistant · Gretna, LA
• Dr. Zakia Diane Anthanette Bell, MD Neurology Physician · Hampton, VA
• Dr. Cherie Drez Bragg, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• James Kirk Campbell, MD Gastroenterology Physician · Marrero, LA
• Jessica Thuy Linh Chu, PA-C Physician Assistant · New Orleans, LA
• Nadinna Joseph Family Nurse Practitioner · Marrero, LA
• Dr. Kenneth C. Malmstrom, MD Hospitalist Physician · Marrero, LA
• Doree Morison, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Mrs. Hanaiya Denise Pritchett-Jones, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Kenner, LA
• Jamie Tran, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in Marrero

• Steven T Atkins, MD

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1245276336

  1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S750, Marrero, LA 70072 · (504) 340-6976

• Dr. Kaveh David Khoobehi, MD

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1477828762

  1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S750, Marrero, LA 70072-3151 · (504) 340-6976

• Walter D Truax, MD

  Individual Neurology Physician · NPI 1427094515

  1111 Medical Center Blvd Ste S750, Marrero, LA 70072 · (504) 340-6976