Who bills the most Use of a drug to induce depression of consciousness by physician performing a procedure, each additional 15 minutes (99153) to Medicare in Louisiana?
Medicare Part B FFS · CY2024 · as published by CMS11 physician groups billed Use of a drug to induce depression of consciousness by physician performing a procedure, each additional 15 minutes (99153) to Medicare fee-for-service in Louisiana in 2024; the top five named groups hold 75% of that volume, and independent (non-hospital-affiliated) groups deliver 0%.
99153 — Use of a drug to induce depression of consciousness by physician performing a procedure, each additional 15 minutes · 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 | 99153 svcs | Share* | Phone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOUISIANA HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE, LLC | COVINGTON | LA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 15 | 295 | 9.1% | (985) 777-7000 |
| 2 | LOUISIANA PAIN CARE, LLC | MONROE | LA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 15 | 190 | 5.8% | (318) 323-6405 |
| 3 | BATON ROUGE CLINIC, A MEDICAL CORPORATION | BATON ROUGE | LA | INTERNAL MEDICINE | 289 | 167 | 5.1% | (225) 246-9790 |
| 4 | IMPERIAL HEALTH LLP | LAKE CHARLES | LA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 75 | 147 | 4.5% | (337) 436-1370 |
| 5 | CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE OF THE SOUTH, LLC | LAFAYETTE | LA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 142 | 115 | 3.5% | (337) 289-8429 |
| 6 | NNM GASTROENTEROLOGY ASSOCIATES PA | SANTA FE | LA | GASTROENTEROLOGY | 12 | 86 | 2.6% | (505) 983-5631 |
| 7 | LOUISIANA VASCULAR LIMB SALVAGE AND CARDIOLOGY APMC | LAFAYETTE | LA | CARDIAC SURGERY | 4 | 63 | 1.9% | (337) 456-6523 |
| 8 | PHYSICAL THERAPY SERVICES OF WEST LOUISIANA INC | LEESVILLE | LA | ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY | 95 | 53 | 1.6% | (337) 238-9931 |
| 9 | RADIOLOGY ASSOCIATES OF SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA | ALEXANDRIA | LA | DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY | 94 | 49 | 1.5% | (318) 473-3000 |
| 10 | CHRISTUS TRINITY CLINIC | TYLER | LA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 1495 | 35 | 1.1% | (903) 606-5560 |
| 11 | CENTER FOR ORTHOPAEDICS AND SPINE LLC | LAKE CHARLES | LA | NURSE PRACTITIONER | 32 | 11 | 0.3% | (337) 721-7236 |
*Share of Louisiana's disclosed Medicare-FFS services for 99153, counted once per clinician. Volume is placed in the state it was billed from, so this page ranks the groups actually billing 99153 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 →