NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Infectious Disease Physician in Louisiana

128 NPPES records list infectious disease physician with a practice address in Louisiana, 2.8 per 100,000 residents, the 26th highest rate of 51. New Orleans and Baton Rouge have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Louisiana license search. Page 1 of 3.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 207RI0200X · method

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

New Orleans has the most, 59

  1. New Orleans59
  2. Baton Rouge16
  3. Shreveport16
  4. Lafayette7
  5. Metairie7

Infectious Disease Physician records in Louisiana

  1. Halim Abou-Faycal, MDShreveport, LA 711031942241708
  2. Shiva Akula, M.DNew Orleans, LA 701151679643639
  3. Mohammad Alam, MDShreveport, LA 711031255399622
  4. Tlaloc Alferez, MDLuling, LA 700701053334185
  5. Anood AlquraanShreveport, LA 711031174204473
  6. Scott Anderson, MDBaton Rouge, LA 708081114285293
  7. Sara Arguello, MD, MPHTMNew Orleans, LA 701191316237647
  8. Jad Aridi, M.D.Lafayette, LA 705081669917795
  9. Aline Arif, MDShreveport, LA 711031801457593
  10. Ashaur Azhar, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701121558595405
  11. Waref Azmeh, MDBaton Rouge, LA 708091467408492
  12. Sarah BahnshalNew Orleans, LA 701121528746484
  13. Katherine Baumgarten, MDNew Orleans, LA 701211972569168
  14. Maren Bell-Do, MDNew Orleans, LA 701121801473194
  15. Yussef Bennani, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701121730478363
  16. Ceryl Besch, MDNew Orleans, LA 701121477551307
  17. Camille Bitar, M.D.Covington, LA 704331346231834
  18. Christopher Blais, MDNew Orleans, LA 701211861480915
  19. Camille Bourgeois, MDNew Orleans, LA 701211124522925
  20. Hector Brunet Rodriguez, MDShreveport, LA 711151104075290
  21. Victoria Burke, MDNew Orleans, LA 701121053554782
  22. Breanna Campbell, MDBaton Rouge, LA 708091295112597
  23. Walter Campbell, MDBaton Rouge, LA 708061578558292
  24. Karen Causey, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701191861443244
  25. Carlos Choucino, MDLake Charles, LA 706071386604338
  26. Rebecca Clark, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701191043219140
  27. Meredith Clement, MDNew Orleans, LA 701191982994588
  28. Jeffery Coco, MDNew Orleans, LA 701151831127513
  29. Raymond Coghlan, MDShreveport, LA 711031285683086
  30. Allison Cormier, MDHouma, LA 703601033553284
  31. Colten Creel, MDNew Orleans, LA 701121366061103
  32. Steven Crider, M.D.West Monroe, LA 712911306858865
  33. Joseph Dalovisio, MDNew Orleans, LA 701211548228968
  34. Pierre Dejace, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701121053491233
  35. John Depaula, M.D.Metairie, LA 700061356447635
  36. Markalain Dery, DONew Orleans, LA 701191386648822
  37. Richard Dicarlo, MDNew Orleans, LA 701121023030129
  38. Eric Ehrensing, MDNew Orleans, LA 701211992779581
  39. Jihad El-Hayek, M.D.Shreveport, LA 711031538354451
  40. Lee Engel, MDNew Orleans, LA 701121245383660
  41. Mary Eschete, MDHouma, LA 703631003856477
  42. Diane Failla, M.D.Metairie, LA 700061598758609
  43. Julio Figueroa,ii, MDNew Orleans, LA 701121700885381
  44. Julia Garcia-Diaz, MDNew Orleans, LA 701211700844594
  45. Alma Gjino, MDSlidell, LA 704581699965293
  46. Stacy Greene, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701151003820721
  47. Emmanuel Guajardo, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701191891157244
  48. Michael Hagensee, MD PHDNew Orleans, LA 701121780603746
  49. Jonathan Hand, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701211083938997
  50. Nadine Harris, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701121285869008

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RI0200X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Louisiana ranks 26 of 51 per resident

  1. Hawaii2.9
  2. Wisconsin2.9
  3. California2.9
  4. Louisiana2.8
  5. Virginia2.8
  6. Tennessee2.7
  7. 50 states and D.C.3.2

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RI0200X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

79.7% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 79.0% nationally

A Medicare file here is Part D prescribing (2024), a MIPS score (2023), an Open Payments record (2024) or Medicare group billing (CMS Doctors and Clinicians). A record outside them may still see patients: these files cover Medicare only.

  1. Louisiana79.7%
  2. United States79.0%

Infectious Disease Physician records in Louisiana, measured

  • In a Medicare file102 of 128 · 79.7% here, 79.0% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file85 · 66.4% here, 68.4% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more70 · 54.7% here, 56.5% nationally
  • Median graduation year2005 · the 85 records with a school on file

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 207RI0200X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

128 NPPES records list infectious disease physician (207RI0200X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Louisiana: 2.8 per 100,000 residents against 3.2 nationally (50 states and D.C.). New Orleans has 59 of them (46%).

A record is a registration a provider made and keeps up to date: it shows neither that the provider is licensed nor that they still practice there. The state's own license search is the check.

States with a similar number

  1. Oregon127
  2. Puerto Rico120
  3. South Carolina119
  4. Alabama112

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. Virginia2.8
  2. California2.9
  3. Tennessee2.7
  4. Wisconsin2.9

The largest states

  1. California1,119
  2. New York970
  3. Florida760
  4. Texas674
  5. Pennsylvania545

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy; 2023 Census population estimates. A registry record is not a license.

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.