RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Hulburd, MD

Ophthalmology · San Luis Obispo, CANPI 1437199916

Payments from drug & device makers

$930in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $40.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Glaukos Corporation$304
  • Alcon$206
  • Rxsight Inc$143
  • AbbVie$104
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$104
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$24
  • plus $45 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$930100%

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

$930 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
$325,522
Medicare patients
889
Services billed
3,317

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
RestasisCyclosporine58$42,500
XiidraLifitegrast20$28,605
LumiganBimatoprost45$19,408
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost12$13,085
Travoprost39$10,288
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol19$9,473
IlevroNepafenac26$9,423
Fluorometholone88$8,082
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod11$7,555
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol33$7,121
Cyclosporine23$5,701
Latanoprost357$5,642
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone105$5,076
Prednisolone Acetate105$4,812
Bromfenac Sodium35$3,425

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, Alphagan P$104$73,590134 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$104$13,08512 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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