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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,688 in general payments to Richard Meyer, MD across 91 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 Meyer, 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 Meyer, 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 Meyer, MD

Orthopaedic Surgery · New Orleans, LANPI 1588664718

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 64.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $8,343 and has fallen 95.4% since, to $382 in 2025.

$15,688in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 91 payments — averaging $172.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$10K
Stryker$3K
ALON Medical Technology$1K
Johnson & Johnson$519
Davol Inc.$167
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$107
plus $588 from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$9,00057%
Travel & lodging$1,86212%
Food & beverage$3,79924%
Education$1,0277%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	12	$10,156
Stryker	37	$3,124
ALON Medical Technology	1	$1,027
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	7	$519
Davol Inc.	2	$167
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$107
Amgen	7	$96
Conmed Corporation	1	$94
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$84
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$82
Bioventus LLC	3	$51
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	3	$40
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$33
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$29
Convatec Inc.	1	$25
Smith+Nephew	1	$18
Vertex	1	$16
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$12
Sonex Health, 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

$15,688 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 286 orthopaedic surgery providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$198,490

Medicare patients

392

Services billed

11,488

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
Gabapentin	426	$3,441
Diclofenac Sodium	291	$3,231
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	141	$2,630
Celecoxib	128	$1,515
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	61	$908
Mupirocin	104	$799
Methylprednisolone	85	$599
Diclofenac Sodium ErDiclofenac Sodium	14	$576
Tramadol Hcl	105	$508
Tizanidine Hcl	53	$425
Ibuprofen	38	$377
Pregabalin	84	$360
Cephalexin	53	$327
Dexamethasone	98	$323
Meloxicam	82	$208

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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