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

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $905 in general payments to Sarah Wheat, MD across 18 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 Sarah 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 Sarah 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.

Sarah Wheat, MD

Hospitalist · Bossier City, LANPI 1558571893

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 18 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 27.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $300 and has fallen 60.2% since, to $119 in 2025.

$905in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $50.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$250
AstraZeneca$140
Shionogi Inc$119
Penumbra, Inc.$115
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company$94
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$66
plus $121 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$905100%

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
AbbVie	2	$250
AstraZeneca	2	$140
Shionogi Inc	1	$119
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$115
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	1	$94
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$66
Pfizer	2	$43
Novartis	3	$41
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$23
Merck	1	$15

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

$905 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 301 hospitalist providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$86,525

Medicare patients

319

Services billed

865

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
Cefdinir	30	$317
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	17	$276
Doxycycline Monohydrate	20	$202
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	21	$129
Methylprednisolone	13	$98
Nifedipine ErNifedipine	11	$65
Prednisone	13	$18

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other hospitalist in Bossier City

Tushar PawarBossier City$1K
David MickeyBaton Rouge$6K
Nikhil SharmaNew Orleans$5K
Haroon MujahidBaton Rouge$4K
Michael ConnerNew Orleans$3K
Pouya MafiShreveport$3K
Yanet Perez GarciaShreveport$2K
Bipasha NathNew Orleans$2K
Benjamin MoreheadMonroe$2K
Philip PutnamNew Orleans$2K

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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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