Who bills the most Removal of lymph nodes, muscle, and tissue of neck (38724) to Medicare in Louisiana?
Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS2 physician groups billed Removal of lymph nodes, muscle, and tissue of neck (38724) to Medicare fee-for-service in Louisiana in 2024; independent (non-hospital-affiliated) groups deliver 0%.
38724 — Removal of lymph nodes, muscle, and tissue of neck · Source: CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners PUF (Part B), CY2024 release. Medicare fee-for-service only.
Snapshot covers the whole Louisiana market — the table below shows the top 100 groups (free tier).
Medicare fee-for-service covers 43% of Medicare in Louisiana; Medicare Advantage penetration 42% → 57% since 2020.
| # | Physician group | City | St | Specialty | Providers | 38724 svcs | Share* | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | OCHSNER CLINIC LLC | NEW ORLEANS | LA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 2839 | 12 | 52.2% | (504) 842-3000 |
| 2 | LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE | SHREVEPORT | LA | PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT | 589 | 11 | 47.8% | (318) 675-8700 |
*Share of Louisiana's disclosed Medicare-FFS services for 38724, counted once per clinician. Volume is placed in the state it was billed from, so this page ranks the groups actually billing 38724 in Louisiana — including groups registered elsewhere ("City" is each group's registered location). Group figures sum clinicians affiliated with exactly one group; clinicians in several groups are listed in each group's drill-down but not volume-attributed to any single group.
How to read this. Figures are Medicare fee-for-service only — not all-payer — from the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners Public Use File (Part B), CY2024 release. CMS suppresses any provider×code row under 11 beneficiaries, so a missing group means "suppressed," never zero. "Charges" are provider-submitted amounts, not payments. Groups are ranked by measured service volume attributed to clinicians in exactly one group — clinicians affiliated with several groups are listed in rosters but never volume-attributed to a single group — a direct read of the public record, not a rating or quality score. Full method: Methods & Sources.
Comparing against an all-payer estimate?
These are exact counts from Medicare fee-for-service claims — roughly a third to half of most procedure markets, depending on payer mix. Modeled all-payer databases project the remainder statistically; we publish the audited floor and label it as such. Same market, different denominator. How the numbers reconcile →