Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

John Saer

Retina Specialist Metairie, LA Medical Doctor

NPI 1487625927 CMS profile 112003

3901 Houma Blvd, Ste 310, Metairie, LA 70006

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General payments

$595

6 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, John Saer of Metairie, LA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $595 across 6 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 18th percentile of Retina Specialist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

3 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $145 2
2023 General $208 2
2019 General $242 2

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • John Saer
  • Retina Specialist median
  • Middle half of Retina Specialist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to John Saer were reported at $145. Among 1,235 Retina Specialist profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $175 and $1,079.

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Year John Saer Retina Specialist median Middle half National median
2019 $242 $410 $157–$1,517 $163
2020 $0 $168 $65–$778 $114
2021 $0 $258 $101–$1,161 $132
2022 $0 $418 $162–$1,488 $149
2023 $208 $476 $178–$1,312 $160
2024 $0 $520 $188–$1,372 $164
2025 $145 $457 $175–$1,079 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Astellas Pharma US Inc $231 3 payments
  2. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $127 1 payment
  3. Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $122 1 payment
  4. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $115 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $595 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Izervay $231 3 payments
  2. EYLEA $127 1 payment
  3. Syfovre $122 1 payment

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 4 drugs

Part D claims

152

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$4,372

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

17.8%

Median for Ophthalmology: 29.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Prednisolone Acetate Generic 43 $1,952
Tobramycin-Dexamethasone Tobramycin/Dexamethasone Brand 27 $1,233
Ketorolac Tromethamine Generic 68 $1,107
Latanoprost Generic 14 $81

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,260 Part D prescribers listed as Ophthalmology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 29 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$860,669

Of which drugs: $736,400

Medicare patients

253

Average age 77

Services billed

22,096

128 women, 125 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 41%
Diabetes 30%
Ischemic heart disease 29%
Chronic kidney disease 27%
Atrial fibrillation 19%
Osteoporosis 16%
Cancer 15%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, faricimab-svoa, 0.1 mg J2777 Office 45 19,620 $540,843
Injection, aflibercept, 1 mg J0178 Office 21 137 $89,673
Injection, bevacizumab, 10 mg J9035 Office 19 55 $2,899

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

6 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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