RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Carver, OD

Optometrist · Sewickley, PANPI 1154313385

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,127in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $57.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$2K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$1K
  • Glaukos Corporation$277
  • AbbVie$166
  • LKC Technologies, Inc.$140
  • Ivantis, Inc$116
  • plus $424 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,16428%
  • Food & beverage$2,93671%
  • Entertainment$271%

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

$4,127 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,165 optometrist providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$16,305
Medicare patients
102
Services billed
141

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
Prednisolone Acetate621$20,388
Ketorolac Tromethamine490$5,863
Ofloxacin451$4,978
Fluorometholone19$1,225
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl13$351
Brimonidine Tartrate14$115
Tobramycin13$94
ErythromycinErythromycin Base11$76
Timolol Maleate14$64

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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