Benjamin Guidry, MD
Ophthalmology · Metairie, LANPI 1770807315
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,469 of the $8,729 with a category attached, or 85.6%. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alimera Sciences, Inc. at 28.0% of the total. Among ophthalmology clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 184 payments — averaging $47.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$2K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$1K
- Coherus Oncology, Inc.$626
- Genentech USA, Inc.$445
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$400
- Regeneron$394
- plus $3K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,20014%
- Food & beverage$7,46986%
- Gifts$190%
- Entertainment$400%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 35 | $2,441 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 27 | $1,003 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 13 | $626 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 10 | $445 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $400 |
| Regeneron | 3 | $394 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 7 | $331 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $328 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 7 | $320 |
| Novartis | 6 | $295 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $279 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 3 | $232 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $225 |
| Sandoz | 9 | $199 |
| Alcon | 3 | $157 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $154 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $150 |
| Amgen | 5 | $125 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Biogen | 5 | $120 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $31 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $7 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$8,729 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 286 ophthalmology providers in Louisiana.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 75 | $3,256 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 50 | $1,245 |
| Latanoprost | 96 | $1,013 |
| Timolol Maleate | 50 | $563 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 32 | $447 |
| Ofloxacin | 26 | $326 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 25 | $101 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Metairie
- Ethan SternMetairie$16K
- John FrisbeeMetairie$14K
- Scott LanouxMetairie$8K
- Tyler GoffMetairie$7K
- John BoyleMetairie$7K
- Nicholas FrisardMetairie$7K
- Brandon DavisMetairie$7K
- Henry HaleyMetairie$7K
- Owen LacourMetairie$6K
- Joshua GroetschMetairie$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.