RxDoctor Payments Data

Albert Smolyar, MD

Ophthalmology · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1194777185

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,263in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 85 payments — averaging $26.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$731
  • Dompe US, Inc.$215
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$205
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$204
  • AbbVie$164
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$158
  • plus $585 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,263100%

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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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.

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

$2,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,405 ophthalmology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$507,968
Medicare patients
1,152
Services billed
2,928

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
Prednisolone Acetate583$28,018
RestasisCyclosporine15$24,089
LumiganBimatoprost34$14,380
Latanoprost1,086$9,904
Brimonidine Tartrate63$4,983
Ciprofloxacin Hcl426$4,302
ErythromycinErythromycin Base277$2,679
Travoprost23$2,538
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat76$1,488
Diclofenac Sodium139$1,274
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol11$1,231
Dorzolamide Hcl64$1,024
Bimatoprost15$962
Timolol Maleate84$590
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl13$510

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$164$38,47049 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 50th percentile of 1,405 ophthalmology providers in Florida.

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