RxDoctor Payments Data

August Pasquale, MD

Ophthalmology · Arnold, MDNPI 1386724334

Payments from drug & device makers

$247in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $24.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$102
  • Rxsight Inc$44
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$44
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$31
  • Harrow Eye, LLC$26

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$247100%

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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25

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

$247 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$542,811
Medicare patients
1,581
Services billed
5,604

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
XiidraLifitegrast26$39,130
Timolol Maleate278$38,151
RestasisCyclosporine17$26,459
Travoprost49$20,870
Bromfenac Sodium50$14,488
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol27$13,312
LumiganBimatoprost15$12,303
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost17$11,217
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium25$9,774
Prednisolone Acetate138$9,078
Latanoprost496$9,032
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate23$7,748
Brimonidine Tartrate27$5,291
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart13$4,624
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl137$3,509

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
AlconSimbrinza$102$4,62413 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 25th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

Other ophthalmology in Arnold

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