RxDoctor Payments Data

Augustus Stephens, MD

Ophthalmology · Atlanta, GANPI 1669554598

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,474in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 166 payments — averaging $32.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Alcon$834
  • Coopervision Inc.$500
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$454
  • Novartis$282
  • NEW World Medical,inc.$227
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$3997%
  • Food & beverage$4,48682%
  • Education$58911%

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

$5,474 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 481 ophthalmology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$158,739
Medicare patients
434
Services billed
1,355

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
LumiganBimatoprost792$439,936
XiidraLifitegrast74$114,794
RestasisCyclosporine91$105,731
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost55$46,033
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol100$43,135
Prednisolone Acetate457$22,017
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod34$20,040
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate35$16,456
Travoprost74$15,361
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart34$14,948
Brimonidine Tartrate81$12,793
Ketorolac Tromethamine660$12,053
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate18$10,902
AzoptBrinzolamide11$8,044
Ofloxacin537$6,623

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, Combigan, Alphagan P$1,333$605,2571,018 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$149$134,834108 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$28$56,93573 claims
AlconSimbrinza, Azopt$834$22,99145 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 70th percentile of 481 ophthalmology providers in Georgia.

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