Has Heidi Romero received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,425 in general payments to Heidi Romero across 183 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 Heidi Romero 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 Heidi Romero 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.

Heidi Romero

Psychiatric/Mental Health · Lafayette, LANPI 1306607908

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,425in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 183 payments — averaging $24.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alkermes, Inc.$651
AbbVie$574
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$409
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$380
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$331
Johnson & Johnson$207
plus $2K from 20 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,425100%

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
Alkermes, Inc.	29	$651
AbbVie	43	$574
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	12	$409
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	20	$380
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	16	$331
Johnson & Johnson	6	$207
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	4	$196
Tris Pharma Inc	9	$163
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	5	$162
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$139
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$123
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$116
Corium, LLC	6	$113
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$110
Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$107
Biogen	1	$105
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	4	$93
Almatica Pharma LLC	4	$91
Itamar Medical Inc	1	$91
Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$75
Neos Therapeutics, LP	3	$51
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$33
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	2	$31
Braeburn Inc.	1	$30
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$22
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20

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.

Fanapt$221
VRAYLAR$125
UZEDY$123
INGREZZA$122
Veozah$116
REXULTI$111
Aptima$110
Xelstrym$107
COBENFY$106
Zurzuvae$105
CAPLYTA$104

How this compares

$4,425 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 615 psychiatric/mental health providers in Louisiana.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Quetiapine Fumarate	16	$315
Duloxetine Hcl	13	$148

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Cinderella BroussardLafayette$14K
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Danielle ThreattsLafayette$11K
Seth WoodruffLafayette$10K
Latonya WoodsLafayette$10K
Laura KightLafayette$9K
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Amanda EymardHouma$617K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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