RxDoctor Payments Data

Brad Elkins, MD

Ophthalmology · Encino, CANPI 1467433037

Payments from drug & device makers

$901in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $22.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$226
  • Alcon$133
  • AbbVie$94
  • Novartis$78
  • Glaukos Corporation$62
  • Optos, Inc.$53
  • plus $254 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$84894%
  • Entertainment$536%

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

$901 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$813,140
Medicare patients
2,403
Services billed
6,543

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
RestasisCyclosporine45$37,969
XiidraLifitegrast13$9,942
Cyclosporine33$9,697
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol21$6,540
LumiganBimatoprost16$6,481
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone139$6,155
Latanoprost425$3,510
Prednisolone Acetate95$3,365
Timolol Maleate213$3,118
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod11$2,760
XalatanLatanoprost13$1,654
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol20$1,411
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat104$1,410
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl13$1,174
Doxycycline Hyclate29$858

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, Combigan, Lumigan$94$50,99182 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 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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