Ricardo E. Blanco, 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.

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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
• Riverside Medical Center Hospital · Franklinton, LA
• 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.

• Dr. Luis M Alvarado, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Franklinton, LA
• Mrs. Kimberlee Ann Clark-Raby, AGNP-BC Adult Health Nurse Practitioner · Roseville, CA
• Mrs. Jessica Farrar Duncan, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Baton Rouge, LA
• Matthew Paul Guillory, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · Baton Rouge, LA
• Dr. Mark James Hontas, MD Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · Covington, LA
• Glen J. Kesler, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Covington, LA
• Dr. Kaitlyn Christian Ladner, DO Family Medicine Physician · Madisonville, LA
• Dr. Richard L. Long, DO Family Medicine Physician · Mandeville, LA
• Dana McKenzie Lyles, NP Family Nurse Practitioner · Covington, LA
• Amelia Frances Masson Family Nurse Practitioner · Covington, LA
• Dr. Patrick Michael O'Callaghan, PHD Clinical Psychologist · Metairie, LA
• Dr. Hayle Rose Scanlan, DO Internal Medicine Physician · Covington, LA

Other providers in Covington

• Richard E. Casey, MD

  Individual Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · NPI 1326097759

  1203 S Tyler St Ste 200, Covington, LA 70433-2353 · (985) 892-9143

• David S Cressy Jr., DO

  Individual Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · NPI 1437108321

  1203 S Tyler St Ste 200, Covington, LA 70433-2353 · (985) 892-9143

• Gulfsouth Critical Care LLC

  Organization Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · NPI 1942704838

  1970 N Highway 190, Covington, LA 70433-5364 · (985) 400-5988

• Gulfsouth Pulmonology, LLC

  Organization Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · NPI 1619463916

  1970 N Highway 190, Covington, LA 70433 · (985) 400-5988