RxDoctor Payments Data

Bradley Bertram, MD

Ophthalmology · Augusta, GANPI 1184785008

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,565in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 332 payments — averaging $46.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Akorn Operating Company LLC$5K
  • Alcon$3K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
  • Glaukos Corporation$1K
  • AbbVie$842
  • Ivantis, Inc$532
  • plus $4K from 28 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5,00032%
  • Food & beverage$10,38367%
  • Education$1821%

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

$15,565 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 481 ophthalmology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$350,152
Medicare patients
1,184
Services billed
2,850

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
RestasisCyclosporine65$59,666
LumiganBimatoprost99$47,749
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod71$35,009
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol49$17,732
Prednisolone Acetate359$17,463
Latanoprost1,036$15,983
Cyclosporine29$14,844
XiidraLifitegrast17$14,159
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol48$10,653
Fluorometholone109$8,867
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium18$6,416
Gatifloxacin101$5,265
Timolol Maleate502$5,029
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart11$3,583
Bromfenac Sodium24$3,243

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$842$125,147213 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Xiidra$373$49,16888 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Loteprednol Etabonate$211$8,08132 claims
AlconSimbrinza$2,943$3,58311 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 85th percentile of 481 ophthalmology providers in Georgia.

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