RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Kauffman, MD

Ophthalmology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1245265578

Payments from drug & device makers

$910in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $21.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$259
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$179
  • AbbVie$120
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$72
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$58
  • Alcon$57
  • plus $165 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$85394%
  • Education$404%
  • Gifts$172%

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.

How this compares

$910 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$433,011
Medicare patients
639
Services billed
2,710

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
RestasisCyclosporine76$61,273
Cyclosporine63$30,389
LumiganBimatoprost74$28,742
Prednisolone Acetate527$15,477
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate30$13,767
XiidraLifitegrast17$12,909
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol24$10,952
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate15$10,692
Latanoprost824$7,863
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart32$7,329
Timolol Maleate194$6,570
Brinzolamide25$5,503
Ketorolac Tromethamine441$4,813
Travoprost18$4,394
Brimonidine Tartrate81$3,966

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$120$100,968174 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$58$13,76730 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$179$12,90917 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$259$10,69215 claims
AlconSimbrinza$57$7,32932 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$13$2,09416 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 40th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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