RxDoctor Payments Data

Brian Vanderploeg

Optometrist · Newtown, OHNPI 1427101757

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,767in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 94 payments — averaging $29.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • Coopervision Inc.$537
  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$233
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$195
  • ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$187
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$182
  • plus $407 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2559%
  • Food & beverage$2,51291%

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

$2,767 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,015
Medicare patients
162
Services billed
296

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
Latanoprost44$202
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha12$108

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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