RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Chun, MD

Ophthalmology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1699747956

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,535in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 392 payments — averaging $21.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$4K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
  • Novartis$699
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$565
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$548
  • Alcon$425
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,00012%
  • Travel & lodging$120%
  • Food & beverage$7,33586%
  • Education$531%
  • Gifts$1352%

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

$8,535 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$234,880
Medicare patients
293
Services billed
1,969

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
LumiganBimatoprost807$352,875
RestasisCyclosporine243$236,357
XiidraLifitegrast191$169,963
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate287$103,526
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod235$101,578
Cyclosporine203$89,969
Prednisolone Acetate736$31,116
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate38$22,793
Brimonidine Tartrate408$21,433
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate27$19,887
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost45$14,642
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol30$13,222
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol58$11,189
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf13$9,627
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat272$4,694

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, Alphagan P, Combigan$3,929$705,9801,367 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta, Miebo$1,060$281,167439 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$110$37,43483 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$235$19,88727 claims
AlconSimbrinza$425$4,36618 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$565$1,55214 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 80th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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