RxDoctor Payments Data

Alan Johnson

Optometrist · Spokane, WANPI 1851399679

Payments from drug & device makers

$799in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $42.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • US Retina LLC$333
  • AbbVie$215
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$125
  • Alcon$125

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$46558%
  • Ownership interest$33342%

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

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25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
US Retina LLC12$333
AbbVie5$215
Astellas Pharma US Inc1$125
Alcon1$125

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

$799 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,267 optometrist providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$300,580
Medicare patients
1,486
Services billed
3,322

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
RestasisCyclosporine58$65,041
Cyclosporine31$22,357
XiidraLifitegrast17$22,212
Latanoprost1,115$14,651
LumiganBimatoprost21$7,324
Brimonidine Tartrate147$7,175
Travatan ZTravoprost13$5,769
Fluorometholone33$2,917
Timolol Maleate269$2,538
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol17$1,616
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat46$920
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl15$860
Dorzolamide Hcl19$346
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha16$229
ErythromycinErythromycin Base11$165

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan$215$72,36579 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 60th percentile of 1,267 optometrist providers in Washington.

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