Top billers · Surgical Pathology · Louisiana

Who bills surgical pathology in Louisiana?

In 2024, 224 providers billed Medicare for surgical pathology, special stains, and immunohistochemistry in Louisiana: 268,507 services and an estimated $7.6M in Medicare payments. Below: the top 5 by service volume, straight from CMS's public billing data.

224
Providers billing surgical pathology (2024)
268,507
Services billed
$7.6M
Est. Medicare paid
↑ 1%
Providers vs 2023
The list

The top 5 surgical pathology billers in Louisiana.

Ranked by 2024 Medicare service volume across the family's codes.

#ProviderSpecialtyCityServicesEst. Medicare paid
1The Pathology Laboratory, Inc.Clinical LaboratoryLake Charles36,393$881K
2The Delta Pathology Group LLCClinical LaboratoryShreveport22,666$658K
3David Dies, M.DGastroenterologyShreveport10,469$365K
4William Long, M.D.PathologyGretna6,665$164K
5Steven Heard, M.D.DermatologyShreveport6,357$155K

That's the top 5. 219 more providers billed surgical pathology in Louisiana in 2024. The full ranked list, with year-over-year history, group affiliations, and phone numbers, is one search in Prospect 811.

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The breakdown

What's behind the number.

Top codes in Louisiana

88305Pathology examination of tissue using a microscope, intermediate complexity157,851
88341Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue, each additional procedure39,536
88342Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue, initial procedure22,608
88313Special stained specimen slides to examine tissue including interpretation and report13,868
88312Special stained specimen slides to identify organisms including interpretation and report12,168
88304Pathology examination of tissue using a microscope, moderately low complexity11,896

Top specialties billing it

Pathology151 providers
Gastroenterology33 providers
Dermatology23 providers
Clinical Laboratory5 providers

Where the billers are

Baton Rouge50 providers
New Orleans43 providers
Shreveport43 providers
Lafayette28 providers
Metairie10 providers
City breakdown

The top surgical pathology cities in Louisiana.

The same 2024 Medicare data, sliced by city: the biggest surgical pathology cities by number of billers, in est.-Medicare-paid order.

In 2024 the top city for surgical pathology in Louisiana by est. Medicare paid was Shreveport: 43 providers billed 84,345 services for an estimated $2.3M, led by The Delta Pathology Group LLC, with 22,666 services (est. $658K Medicare paid).

#CityBillersServicesEst. Medicare paidCity leader (2024)
1Shreveport4384,345$2.3MThe Delta Pathology Group LLC · 22,666 services · est. $658K
2New Orleans4334,065$1.1MAbida Kadi, M.D. · 4,567 services · est. $257K
3Baton Rouge5030,135$897KTracy Rauch, M.D. · 2,524 services · est. $75K
4Lafayette2828,756$843KPreferred Anatomic Pathology Services, Inc. · 2,988 services · est. $101K
5Metairie1011,448$436KCarol Sartin, MD · 2,673 services · est. $154K

City totals are cut from the same public CMS data as everything above: Medicare fee-for-service only, after CMS's under-11-beneficiary suppression, dollars always est. Medicare paid. Where a city shows fewer than 3 billers, we show the totals and name no one. Naming is capped by design: up to 5 ranked billers above plus at most one leader per city here, and no one else on this page.

Where these numbers come from. Everything on this page is computed from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024, the most recent year CMS has released. It covers traditional Medicare fee-for-service only (no commercial insurance, no Medicare Advantage). CMS suppresses any provider-and-code line with fewer than 11 beneficiaries before publishing, so low-volume billers don't appear at all. "Est. Medicare paid" is each billing line's average Medicare payment multiplied by its service count, summed. One service is one specimen exam or stain as billed to Medicare. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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