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Brian Shafer, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Plymouth Meeting, PANPI 1982054433

Payments from drug & device makers

$955,336in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 457 payments — averaging $2090.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Rxsight Inc$420K
  • Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited$212K
  • Alcon$212K
  • Glaukos Corporation$50K
  • Alcon Research LLC$46K
  • AbbVie$8K
  • plus $7K from 20 others
$1,062,311in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $212,462 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Alcon Research LLC$1.1M
  • Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$629,27086%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$68,2919%
  • Travel & lodging$25,5443%
  • Food & beverage$12,8302%

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

Too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Pennsylvaniato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$264,266
Medicare patients
331
Services billed
1,415

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
LumiganBimatoprost15$7,964
RestasisCyclosporine12$7,795
Prednisolone Acetate172$7,544
Ketorolac Tromethamine47$1,222
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl75$1,198
Latanoprost79$862
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl14$672
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat19$312
Brimonidine Tartrate14$285
Timolol Maleate19$90

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$7,954$15,75927 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. There are too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Pennsylvaniaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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