RxDoctor Payments Data

Amanda Hoelscher, OD

Optometrist · Dallas, TXNPI 1508874520

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $14,366 of the $17,769 with a category attached, or 80.8%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Lumenis BE Inc at 45.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $8,136 and has fallen 71.6% since, to $2,311 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$17,769in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 185 payments — averaging $96.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lumenis BE Inc$8K
  • Rxsight Inc$3K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$856
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$779
  • AbbVie$705
  • plus $3K from 18 others
$26,456in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $1202.54 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.

  • Glaukos Corporation$26K
  • Rxsight Inc$16

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,36819%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$260%
  • Food & beverage$14,36681%
  • Education$100%

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

$17,769 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$138,887
Medicare patients
715
Services billed
1,544

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
XiidraLifitegrast48$74,230
RestasisCyclosporine39$58,349
XdemvyLotilaner20$37,677
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf27$22,503
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol26$9,024
LumiganBimatoprost11$5,904
IlevroNepafenac11$4,014
Latanoprost324$3,455
Prednisolone Acetate122$3,361
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol16$3,020
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate11$2,776
Brimonidine Tartrate68$2,118
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat40$863
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha53$700
Timolol Maleate62$533

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Miebo$1,650$96,73475 claims
AbbVieRestasis, Combigan, Lumigan, Alphagan P$705$76,05487 claims
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy$230$37,67720 claims
NovartisIlevro$496$4,01411 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 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.

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