RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Ricks, MD

Ophthalmology · Provo, UTNPI 1255727905

Payments from drug & device makers

$795in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $41.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$213
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$172
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$98
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$90
  • Novartis$55
  • Dompe US, Inc.$34
  • plus $134 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$795100%

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

$795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 191 ophthalmology providers in Utah.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$210,964
Medicare patients
514
Services billed
1,368

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
RestasisCyclosporine32$17,822
XiidraLifitegrast14$10,394
Cyclosporine20$6,426
Ketorolac Tromethamine272$5,410
Latanoprost313$4,067
Prednisolone Acetate90$3,145
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol19$1,758
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat82$1,121
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha63$754
Timolol Maleate73$722
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl17$543
Dorzolamide Hcl18$378
Levobunolol Hcl14$245
Brimonidine Tartrate26$238

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$16$17,82232 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$14$10,39414 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 191 ophthalmology providers in Utah.

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