Has Dustin Weidert, OD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,571 in general payments to Dustin Weidert, OD across 43 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dustin Weidert, OD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dustin Weidert, OD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dustin Weidert, OD

Optometrist · Lutcher, LANPI 1083341515

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,571in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 43 payments — averaging $59.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Glaukos Corporation$686
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$452
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$261
Dompe US, Inc.$242
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$163
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$160
plus $606 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,571100%

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
Glaukos Corporation	6	$686
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	9	$452
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	5	$261
Dompe US, Inc.	5	$242
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	3	$163
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	3	$160
Harrow Eye, LLC	2	$154
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$138
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$134
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$84
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$59
Coopervision Inc.	2	$29
Quidel Corporation	1	$8

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

$2,571 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 500 optometrist providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$24,985

Medicare patients

121

Services billed

362

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
RestasisCyclosporine	52	$45,851
Cyclosporine	14	$8,799
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	28	$6,030
Prednisolone Acetate	75	$3,394
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	16	$1,987
Fluorometholone	25	$1,840
Azelastine Hcl	49	$1,405
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	99	$1,318
Latanoprost	109	$1,128
Travoprost	13	$1,101
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	27	$772
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	11	$618
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	44	$567
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	51	$526
Timolol Maleate	37	$205

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Lutcher

Pamela TheriotShreveport$207K
Joshua DavidsonGonzales$189K
Jeffrey WilhiteMarrero$86K
Christopher WrotenHammond$59K
James LamarNew Orleans$45K
Stephen LewisShreveport$37K
John McCallLogansport$32K
Jason AllemondZachary$26K
Robert KellyMarrero$26K
Shane FontenotJennings$23K

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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.

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