RxDoctor Payments Data

Barrett Thompson, MD

Ophthalmology · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1659938181

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,038in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $38.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • AbbVie$325
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$106
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$76
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$45
  • Rxsight Inc$29
  • plus $134 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,038100%

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

$2,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 323 ophthalmology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$98,002
Medicare patients
366
Services billed
1,221

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
RestasisCyclosporine25$19,344
Prednisolone Acetate99$4,456
Ketorolac Tromethamine110$4,004
Doxycycline Hyclate34$1,411
Latanoprost120$1,402
Ofloxacin130$1,385
Brimonidine Tartrate27$890
Fluorometholone11$617
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat23$376
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha33$341
ErythromycinErythromycin Base24$236
Timolol Maleate28$198
Ibuprofen32$75

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$325$19,34425 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 323 ophthalmology providers in Tennessee.

Other ophthalmology in Chattanooga

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