HOSPITAL · CCN 190316

THE GENERAL

Physician affiliations & referral network
BATON ROUGE, LAFY 2025
Affiliated physicians
13
External referring physicians
112
Top affiliated specialty
Emergency Medicine
Shared beneficiaries (top referrers)
5,116
SPECIALTY MIX

Specialties among affiliated physicians

Emergency Medicine
5
Internal Medicine
5
Psychiatry
2
Family Practice
1
AFFILIATED PHYSICIANS

Physicians affiliated with THE GENERAL (13 total)

From CMS Physician-Facility Affiliations.

PhysicianAffiliation type
VENKATRAM BANDAHospital
BLAKE BOURGOYNEHospital
UYEN CAROHospital
AARON DE WITTHospital
TOMMIE ESPYHospital
SUBHAKAR GUMMADIHospital
DANIEL HAMMETTHospital
TYLER LEBOUEFHospital
CHARLES MAYEUXHospital
ANOOP NARAHARIHospital
RACHANA PATELHospital
OANA PETCUHospital
HALLI SMALLHospital
REFERRAL NETWORK

Who refers patients here

External physicians who share patients into this hospital's affiliated providers, ranked by shared Medicare beneficiaries.

Referring physicianSpecialtyShared beneficiaries
OUR LADY OF THE LAKE HOSPITAL INC.—769
Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc.Ambulance Service Provider716
BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER—344
Karthik ReddyInternal Medicine199
Byron MayDiagnostic Radiology197
William GregoireDiagnostic Radiology196
James FletcherDiagnostic Radiology193
Sang-Ting TsaiDiagnostic Radiology192
EAST BATON ROUGE MEDICAL CENTER LLC—191
Kaycee WeaverInternal Medicine187
Sundararama VatsavaiInternal Medicine173
Adam HarrisDiagnostic Radiology167
Melanie McknightHospitalist148
BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER—145
John SparksDiagnostic Radiology137
Laboratory Corporation Of America HoldingsClinical Laboratory131
David MeltonEmergency Medicine124
Robert NewsomeDiagnostic Radiology122
Nakia NewsomeCardiology121
Joseph GriffinVascular Surgery120
Victor TranVascular Surgery115
Christy PerryNurse Practitioner112
Robert BranstetterDiagnostic Radiology109
James LawtonDiagnostic Radiology106
Terry ZellmerCardiology102
Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). A directional edge is a proxy for referral, not a documented referral; pairs below 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.
CASE MIX

Top procedures by volume

Highest-volume MS-DRGs from CMS inpatient claims (latest reporting year per code).

MS-DRGDischarges
885PSYCHOSES67
871SEPTICEMIA OR SEVERE SEPSIS WITHOUT MV >96 HOURS WITH MCC34
291HEART FAILURE AND SHOCK WITH MCC14
683RENAL FAILURE WITH CC12
682RENAL FAILURE WITH MCC12
189PULMONARY EDEMA AND RESPIRATORY FAILURE11
689KIDNEY AND URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS WITH MCC11