RxDoctor Payments Data

Alireza Ghaffarieh, MD

Ophthalmology · Palm Desert, CANPI 1437539533

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,771in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $83.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$295
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$285
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$275
  • Tearlab Corp$233
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$216
  • Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$170
  • plus $1K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,771100%

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

$2,771 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$257,735
Medicare patients
869
Services billed
1,969

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 Acetate712$35,437
XiidraLifitegrast25$28,120
LumiganBimatoprost55$24,526
RestasisCyclosporine25$22,969
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl496$11,763
Latanoprost999$11,277
Ketorolac Tromethamine295$8,045
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate13$6,275
TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone22$6,196
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod11$5,198
Brimonidine Tartrate222$5,014
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol33$4,928
Brinzolamide16$4,319
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat176$3,316
Timolol Maleate290$3,141

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
AbbVieLumigan, Restasis$103$47,49580 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$150$33,31836 claims
AlconSimbrinza$90$2,67413 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 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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