NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician in Louisiana

11 NPPES records list sleep medicine (internal medicine) physician with a practice address in Louisiana, 0.2 per 100,000 residents, the 39th highest rate of 48. Shreveport and New Orleans have the most; each record links to the provider's NPI and the Louisiana license search.

CMS NPPES registry, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census estimates · NUCC 207RS0012X · method

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

Shreveport has the most, 3

  1. Shreveport3
  2. New Orleans2
  3. Baton Rouge1
  4. Bogalusa1
  5. Covington1

Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician records in Louisiana

  1. Carolyn Benoit, RPSGTRayne, LA 705781376176768
  2. Joseph Bordelon, M.D.Opelousas, LA 705701972685279
  3. Abigail BoudreauxNew Orleans, LA 701151750901724
  4. Michael Darin, M.D.New Orleans, LA 701151285855973
  5. Lauren Davis, M.D.Covington, LA 704331740242221
  6. Gerald Foret, M.D.Bogalusa, LA 704271265492714
  7. Naomi Ghildiyal, MDShreveport, LA 711031316436553
  8. Dwayne Henry, MDBaton Rouge, LA 708081952359077
  9. Megan Smalley, MDShreveport, LA 711011881056216
  10. Diana Song, DOShreveport, LA 711301225590292
  11. Clinton Young, M.D.Lafayette, LA 705081346277449

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RS0012X: records by practice city and the list of records, file of Aug 9, 2026.

Louisiana ranks 39 of 48 per resident

  1. South Carolina0.3
  2. Nebraska0.3
  3. Nevada0.3
  4. Louisiana0.2
  5. Arkansas0.2
  6. North Carolina0.2
  7. 50 states and D.C.0.3

Source: CMS NPPES, primary taxonomy 207RS0012X by practice state, file of Aug 9, 2026; records per 100,000 residents, 2023 Census estimates.

81.8% of these records appear in a Medicare file, against 84.4% 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. Louisiana81.8%
  2. United States84.4%

Sleep Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician records in Louisiana, measured

  • In a Medicare file9 of 11 · 81.8% here, 84.4% nationally
  • In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians file7 · 63.6% here, 70.6% nationally
  • Not updated in five years or more6 · 54.5% here, 43.7% nationally

Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026 (primary taxonomy 207RS0012X); CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024 and Doctors and Clinicians, matched by NPI.

What the count covers

11 NPPES records list sleep medicine (internal medicine) physician (207RS0012X) as their primary taxonomy with a practice address in Louisiana: 0.2 per 100,000 residents against 0.3 nationally (50 states and D.C.). Shreveport has 3 of them (27%).

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. Mississippi11
  2. Montana11
  3. New Mexico12
  4. Iowa13

States with a similar rate per 100,000

  1. North Carolina0.2
  2. Florida0.2
  3. South Carolina0.3
  4. Missouri0.3

The largest states

  1. California129
  2. Pennsylvania58
  3. New York57
  4. Texas56
  5. Ohio53

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.