RxDoctor Payments Data

Arturo Betancourt, MD

Ophthalmology · Glen Burnie, MDNPI 1457356271

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,662in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $19.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$323
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$304
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$226
  • Alcon$146
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$136
  • Novartis$112
  • plus $415 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,62698%
  • Gifts$372%

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

19
20
21
22
23
24

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.

How this compares

$1,662 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

See all ophthalmology providers in Maryland

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$665,326
Medicare patients
2,092
Services billed
4,108

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
RestasisCyclosporine40$45,515
LumiganBimatoprost49$24,891
XiidraLifitegrast13$20,190
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod40$16,207
Prednisolone Acetate292$13,547
Travoprost31$9,700
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol25$8,918
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost11$8,735
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf11$8,193
Cyclosporine22$7,930
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl253$7,870
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate17$6,393
Ketorolac Tromethamine291$5,598
Brimonidine Tartrate81$3,242
Latanoprost201$2,425

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$323$79,325114 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta, Miebo$22$44,59064 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 55th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

Other ophthalmology in Glen Burnie

See the full list for Maryland

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →