RxDoctor Payments Data

Aref Rifai, MD

Retina Specialist · Pensacola, FLNPI 1265428270

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,403in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 36 payments — averaging $38.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$392
  • AbbVie$332
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$259
  • Abbott$156
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$94
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$43
  • plus $129 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,38699%
  • Education$181%

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

$1,403 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,830,431
Medicare patients
939
Services billed
19,045

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
RestasisCyclosporine19$28,500
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate39$22,153
LumiganBimatoprost30$15,200
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol23$12,728
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost23$12,714
Latanoprost752$12,264
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine13$7,672
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart20$6,602
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol22$6,088
Timolol Maleate278$4,364
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat208$3,616
Brimonidine Tartrate167$3,073
Travoprost17$2,718
Prednisolone Acetate48$2,179
Dorzolamide Hcl88$2,017

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, Combigan, Restasis Multidose$332$64,10185 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$19$34,86762 claims
AlconSimbrinza$34$6,60220 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 30th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.

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