Michael James Garitty, MD

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.

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.

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.

• Beauregard Memorial Hospital Hospital · Deridder, LA · listed as Beauregard Memorial Hospital Homecare, LLC
• Christus Ochsner St Patrick Hospital Hospital · Lake Charles, LA · listed as Christus St Patrick Hospital
• Lake Charles Memorial Hospital Hospital · Lake Charles, LA · listed as Diabetes Education of Lake Charles Memorial Hospital
• West Calcasieu Cameron Hospital Hospital · Sulphur, LA
• Christus Homecare St Patrick Home health agency · Lake Charles, LA · listed as Christus St Patrick Hospital
• Southern Home Health Home health agency · Lake Charles, LA

Colleagues at Center for Orthopaedics and Spine LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 32 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Alex Anderson, MD Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Allison Rebecca Bel, NP Registered Nurse First Assistant · Lake Charles, LA
• Sarah E Clevenger, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Lake Charles, LA
• Andrew Lee Foret, MD Surgery Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. Tyson Ellis Green, DPM Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. Steven S Hale, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Katherine Hanks, FNP Family Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LA
• Claire Elizabeth Hays Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Bradley Lane Jimerson, DPM Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. John Kalieb Pourciau, DPM Foot & Ankle Surgery Podiatrist · Lake Charles, LA
• Dr. George Joseph Trappey IV, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Lake Charles, LA
• Wendy A Wingate, APRN Family Nurse Practitioner · Lake Charles, LA

Other providers in Lake Charles

• Dr. David Jacob Drez Jr., MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1912957044

  1747 Imperial Blvd, Lake Charles, LA 70605-5362 · (337) 721-7236

• Dr. Robert Michael Duarte, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1992983159

  1717 Oak Park Blvd Fl 3, Lake Charles, LA 70601-8990 · (337) 494-4900

• Dr. Stephen James Flood, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1427130186

  4150 Nelson Rd Bldg D; Ste 1, Lake Charles, LA 70605-4148 · (337) 474-6960

• Dr. Jonathan Lynn Foret, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1538365994

  1747 Imperial Blvd, Lake Charles, LA 70605-5362 · (337) 721-7236

• Great River Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Center

  Organization Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1770309460

  801 W Bayou Pines Dr, Lake Charles, LA 70601-7076 · (337) 549-7770

• Clark A Gunderson, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1083831887

  1717 Oak Park Blvd Fl 3, Lake Charles, LA 70601-8990 · (337) 439-0385

• Dr. Steven S Hale, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1205059763

  1747 Imperial Blvd, Lake Charles, LA 70605-5362 · (337) 721-7293

• Dr. Charles William Hansen, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1750840948

  1625 Wolf Cir, Lake Charles, LA 70605-2348 · (337) 905-7100