Nickolas A Skias, CRNA

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.

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

• Ochsner Medical Center - Baton Rouge Hospital · Baton Rouge, LA · listed as East Baton Rouge Medical Center LLC

Colleagues at Dpi of Louisiana LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 70 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Gregory S Baird, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Kenner, LA
• Dr. Andrew Paul Bourgeois, MD Anesthesiology Physician · Baton Rouge, LA
• Mrs. Aislynn Coates, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA
• Jeremy Dufrene Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · New Orleans, LA
• Amy M Holstein, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Zachary, LA
• Ashley Legendre Morgan, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA
• Mr. Blake Cullom Muller, RN/CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Hammond, LA
• Richard W Newman II, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Jackson, MS
• Daniel O'Brien, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Monroe, LA
• Mr. Nicholas Grant Smith, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Temple, TX
• Alexander I Waters, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Baton Rouge, LA
• Nicole R. Williams, CRNA Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist · Metairie, LA

Other providers in Baton Rouge

• Cynthia F Schwartzenburg, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1497899611

  8212 Summa Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3421 · (225) 769-4403

• Dr. James L. Sharpless Jr., MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1588651467

  8212 Summa Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3421 · (225) 769-4403

• Dr. Leslie Kay Sheffield, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1073574265

  11408 Lake Sherwood Ave N Ste A, Baton Rouge, LA 70816-0421 · (225) 754-9478

• Mark C Shoptaugh, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1275678237

  8212 Summa Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3421 · (225) 769-4403

• Marshall H Sommers, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1316082738

  8212 Summa Ave, Baton Rouge, LA 70809-3421 · (225) 769-4403

• Dr. Michael John St Pierre, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1134180623

  5253 Dijon Dr Ste A, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4312 · (225) 768-1611

• Dr. Luther Stewart, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1932105988

  2753 Yorktown Dr Box 80072, Baton Rouge, LA 70898-0072 · (225) 288-5793

• Fahimeh Hanachi Tahvildari, MD

  Individual Anesthesiology Physician · NPI 1710217674

  6736 Pikes Ln, Baton Rouge, LA 70808-4274 · (225) 767-6615