Nahida Baigam, MD

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.

• Touro Infirmary Hospital · New Orleans, LA
• University Medical Center New Orleans Hospital · New Orleans, LA · listed as Louisiana State University

Colleagues at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans Faculty G

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 447 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Dr. Lobna Hussain Ali, MD Geriatric Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Bruce A. Barron, MD Ophthalmology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Celeste Christina Gary, MD Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery Physician · New Orleans, LA
• MS. Michelle Gaiennie Hamrick, MSW, LCSW Clinical Social Worker · New Orleans, LA
• Candis Hawkins, DNP, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · New Orleans, LA
• Benjamin Homra Pain Medicine Physician · LA Place, LA
• James Leithead III Surgery Physician · Covington, LA
• Edward Claro Mader Jr., MD Neurology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Nichole Margaret Nilsen, DO Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Allison Marie Pinner, MD Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Lauren Elizabeth Richey, MD, MPH Infectious Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Leonard James Wudel, MD Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) Physician · Winston Salem, NC

Other providers in New Orleans

• Dr. Arnold B. Alper Jr., MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1477509107

  1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2600 · (504) 988-5838

• Dr. Saddam Alqussairy, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1184400996

  1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2600 · (504) 988-2893

• Dr. Jafar Alsaid, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1073137733

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2483 · (504) 842-3930

• Anthony Lama, MD, APMC

  Organization Nephrology Physician · NPI 1518120815

  3439 Prytania St Ste 500, New Orleans, LA 70115-3536 · (504) 897-5528

• Dr. Vecihi Batuman, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1528159670

  1415 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70112-2600 · (504) 988-2300

• Adrian J Baudy IV, MD

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1154555654

  1430 Tulane Ave # SL-50, New Orleans, LA 70112-2632 · (504) 988-5346

• Rhea Bhargava

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1245573310

  1430 Tulane Ave # 8545, New Orleans, LA 70112-2632 · (504) 988-5352

• Shirisha Bodana, DO

  Individual Nephrology Physician · NPI 1770794067

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121 · (504) 842-4000