Waldemar Torres, MD
Retina Specialist · Metairie, LANPI 1275528051
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 40 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. at 29.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $493 and has fallen 84.7% since, to $76 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for retina specialist clinicians in LA, where the typical reported total is $2,679.
Across 40 payments — averaging $34.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$396
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$257
- Regeneron$145
- AbbVie$144
- Genentech, Inc.$125
- Harrow Eye, LLC$97
- plus $199 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,363100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 12 | $396 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 10 | $257 |
| Regeneron | 2 | $145 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $144 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $97 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biogen | 1 | $21 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 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
$1,363 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 30 retina specialist providers in Louisiana.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 170 | $7,749 |
| Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate | 95 | $3,828 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 43 | $1,231 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 130 | $980 |
| Ofloxacin | 58 | $810 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 26 | $426 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 24 | $350 |
| Timolol Maleate | 26 | $175 |
| Prednisone | 13 | $69 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 11 | $66 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in Metairie
- Gwen CousinsMetairie$10K
- Brett BuddenMetairie$6K
- Arley Jaramillo RodriguezMetairie$6K
- Neil NotarobertoMetairie$4K
- Mallika DossMetairie$3K
- Kathy TaMetairie$3K
- Stanislav ZhukMetairie$2K
- Jasmine ElisonMetairie$1K
- Ronald WillsonMetairie$1K
- John SaerMetairie$595
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.