Has Richard Hebert, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $849 in general payments to Richard Hebert, MD across 22 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 Richard Hebert, 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 Richard Hebert, 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.

Richard Hebert, MD

Otolaryngology · Eunice, LANPI 1396742235

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.0% of the total across 22 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for otolaryngology clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $1,485.

$849in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $38.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Aerin Medical Inc.$164
Intersect ENT, Inc.$157
Stryker$138
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$122
Amgen$79
Acclarent, Inc$56
plus $133 from 5 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$81596%
Education$344%

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
Aerin Medical Inc.	3	$164
Intersect ENT, Inc.	2	$157
Stryker	2	$138
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$122
Amgen	3	$79
Acclarent, Inc	3	$56
GSK	2	$43
Sanofi	2	$32
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$28
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$16
Merck	1	$13

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

$849 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 218 otolaryngology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$166,658

Medicare patients

498

Services billed

3,043

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
Ipratropium Bromide	732	$16,355
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	207	$8,561
Epinephrine	20	$4,780
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	36	$4,017
Pantoprazole Sodium	354	$2,776
Famotidine	304	$2,127
Mometasone Furoate	206	$1,747
Fluticasone Propionate	143	$1,602
Sucralfate	13	$1,057
Mupirocin	59	$925
CefuroximeCefuroxime Axetil	45	$908
Cefdinir	25	$751
Azelastine Hcl	28	$618
Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride	57	$600
Clindamycin Hcl	34	$488

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Eunice

Donald GonzalesNew Orleans$351K
Kevin McLaughlinCovington$186K
Adil FatakiaMarrero$148K
Edward McCoulNew Orleans$92K
Michael YimShreveport$77K
Maura CosettiShreveport$64K
Lizabeth ClarkeNew Iberia$40K
Henry BarhamBaton Rouge$32K
Cherie-Ann NathanShreveport$32K
Jesse DuplechainLafayette$29K

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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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