Wendell Heard

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.

• East Jefferson General Hospital Hospital · Metairie, LA

Colleagues at Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 393 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Christine Marie Bojanowski, MD Internal Medicine Physician · LA Jolla, CA
• Daniel Brady Internal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Molly Beth Delk, MD Gastroenterology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Wayne John G Hellstrom, MD Urology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Gabriella Pridjian, MD Maternal & Fetal Medicine Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Christopher Rue, FNP-C Family Nurse Practitioner · Metairie, LA
• Dr. Janet L Schmid, MD Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Michael Sciaudone, MD Infectious Disease Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Dr. Eric Simon, MD Nephrology Physician · New Orleans, LA
• Mr. Yuri Simonian, MD Obstetrics Physician · New Orleasns, LA
• Taylor Wearda, MD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · New Orleans, LA
• Mandy Crause Weidenhaft, MD Diagnostic Radiology Physician · New Orleans, LA

Other providers in New Orleans

• Dr. Gustavo Godoy, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1104185958

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-5932

• Brian Godshaw

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1609261288

  1221 S Clearview Pkwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-1011 · (504) 736-4800

• Dr. Joseph A. Gonzales Jr., MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1003901539

  200 Henry Clay Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118 · (504) 896-9569

• Dr. Terry Lee Habig, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1457353021

  2731 Napoleon Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115-6913 · (504) 897-6351

• Stephen D Heinrich, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1396770012

  200 Henry Clay Ave Ste 4103, New Orleans, LA 70118-5720 · (504) 896-9569

• Dr. Gregor James Hoffman, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1396737771

  2731 Napoleon Ave, New Orleans, LA 70115-6913 · (504) 897-6351

• Dr. Jefferson J Kaye, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1558319160

  1514 Jefferson Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70121-2429 · (504) 842-4000

• Dr. James Monroe Laborde, MD

  Individual Orthopaedic Surgery Physician · NPI 1750485009

  3434 Prytania St Ste 430, New Orleans, LA 70115 · (504) 899-6391