RxDoctor Payments Data

Christos McClain, OD

Optometrist · College Station, TXNPI 1154989622

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,800 of the $6,223 with a category attached, or 77.1%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Biotissue Holdings Inc. at 32.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,041, more than ten times the $128 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$6,223in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 116 payments — averaging $53.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
  • AbbVie$370
  • Alcon$292
  • Glaukos Corporation$229
  • plus $786 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$59310%
  • Travel & lodging$78713%
  • Food & beverage$4,80077%
  • Education$180%
  • Entertainment$260%

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

$6,223 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$16,472
Medicare patients
76
Services billed
199

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 Acetate12$356

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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