Has Robert Blem, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,424 in general payments to Robert Blem, MD across 29 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 Robert Blem, 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 Robert Blem, 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.

Robert Blem, MD

Ophthalmology · Lafayette, LANPI 1528026838

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,424in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $49.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Dutch Ophthalmic, USA$266
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$264
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$240
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$132
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$129
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$118
plus $275 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,424100%

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
Dutch Ophthalmic, USA	2	$266
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$264
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	2	$240
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	2	$132
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$129
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	6	$118
Harrow Eye, LLC	2	$57
Genentech USA, Inc.	3	$57
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$50
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	2	$44
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$42
Novartis	1	$16
Beaver-visitec International, Inc.	1	$10

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

$1,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 286 ophthalmology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,686,363

Medicare patients

1,311

Services billed

8,794

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
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine	15	$9,305
Ketorolac Tromethamine	344	$8,341
Prednisolone Acetate	300	$7,809
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	20	$4,014
Brimonidine Tartrate	128	$3,035
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate	11	$2,388
Difluprednate	13	$1,252
Acetazolamide	14	$748
Latanoprost	91	$642
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	28	$419
Timolol Maleate	15	$75
Prednisone	15	$59
Alprazolam	81	$58

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Frederick HallLafayette$8K
Patrick KeatingLafayette$7K
Jonathan JosephLafayette$7K
Kevin SwanLafayette$6K
Alexandra SellersLafayette$5K
Blake WilliamsonBaton Rouge$482K
William ReadMonroe$303K
Delmar CaldwellNew Orleans$282K
Ruben GrigorianWest Monroe$192K

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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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