RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Starr, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · New York, NYNPI 1720076185

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $225,573 of the $294,227 with a category attached, or 76.7%. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 24.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $110,536 and has fallen 55.6% since, to $49,075 in 2025. Among cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$294,227in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 272 payments — averaging $1081.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$73K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$39K
  • Novartis$37K
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$37K
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$32K
  • Dompe US, Inc.$23K
  • plus $53K from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$225,57377%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$54,98019%
  • Travel & lodging$2,6171%
  • Food & beverage$11,0574%

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

$294,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 26 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$310,135
Medicare patients
1,091
Services billed
3,741

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
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf128$102,833
XdemvyLotilaner44$80,273
RestasisCyclosporine41$54,127
XiidraLifitegrast24$20,305
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate14$8,962
TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone15$3,873
Loteprednol Etabonate18$2,368
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl37$1,191
Prednisolone Acetate27$1,012
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone26$888
Fluorometholone16$701
Gatifloxacin12$500
Polymyxin B Sul-TrimethoprimPolymyxin B Sulf/Trimethoprim14$100

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo, Xiidra$39,462$123,138152 claims
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy$8,750$80,27344 claims
AbbVieRestasis$72,573$54,12741 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$1,453$8,96214 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$23$2,36818 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 95th percentile of 26 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in New York.

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