RxDoctor Payments Data

Alexander Eaton, MD

Retina Specialist · Fort Myers, FLNPI 1922021195

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by ownership interests: $6,326 of the $9,014 with a category attached, or 70.2%. US Retina LLC accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,668 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $167 in 2025.

$9,014in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $563.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • US Retina LLC$6K
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$3K
  • Notal Vision, Inc.$83
  • Alimera Sciences, Inc.$39
  • AbbVie$33
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$17
$200,630in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $5732.28 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$177K
  • Genentech, Inc.$13K
  • AbbVie$7K
  • Novartis$4K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,38226%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$150%
  • Food & beverage$2743%
  • Education$170%
  • Ownership interest$6,32670%

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

$9,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$16,264,105
Medicare patients
2,949
Services billed
162,379

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
RestasisCyclosporine16$16,032
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium16$7,865
Bromfenac Sodium18$5,435
Brimonidine Tartrate56$4,619
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol23$3,486
Prednisolone Acetate65$2,671
Ketorolac Tromethamine70$1,970
Latanoprost145$1,791
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf11$1,398
Timolol Maleate68$1,184
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone16$922
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat49$784
ErythromycinErythromycin Base18$173
Tobramycin11$60

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$33$16,03216 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 70th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.

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