Has Patrick Wheat, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $610 in general payments to Patrick Wheat, MD across 20 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 Patrick Wheat, MD 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 Patrick Wheat, MD 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.

Patrick Wheat, MD

Psychiatry · Natchitoches, LANPI 1003897208

Payments from drug & device makers

$610in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $30.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$274
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$124
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$51
Boehringer Ingelheim$47
Alkermes, Inc.$37
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$23
plus $54 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$58396%
Education$274%

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
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$274
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	6	$124
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$51
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$47
Alkermes, Inc.	2	$37
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$23
AbbVie	1	$22
Braeburn Inc.	1	$18
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$14

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.

QELBREE$119

How this compares

$610 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 474 psychiatry providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$5,857

Medicare patients

Services billed

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
Risperdal ConstaRisperidone Microspheres	16	$19,355
Haloperidol Decanoate	33	$3,027
Clozapine	32	$2,782
Bupropion Hcl SrBupropion Hcl	88	$1,643
Buspirone Hcl	67	$1,538
Trazodone Hcl	121	$1,285
Duloxetine Hcl	67	$1,157
Aripiprazole	68	$1,065
Oxcarbazepine	32	$1,061
Haloperidol	28	$1,015
Quetiapine Fumarate	58	$934
Hydroxyzine Hcl	14	$789
Sertraline Hcl	92	$772
Divalproex Sodium	11	$549
Fluoxetine Hcl	56	$521

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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