RxDoctor Payments Data

Claire Chu, MD

Ophthalmology · Dallas, TXNPI 1104073527

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,454in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 134 payments — averaging $40.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$3K
  • AbbVie$703
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$444
  • Glaukos Corporation$265
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$234
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$171
  • plus $761 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$90%
  • Travel & lodging$4338%
  • Food & beverage$4,66385%
  • Entertainment$230%
  • Other$3276%

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

$5,454 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$477,602
Medicare patients
1,002
Services billed
3,800

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
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium83$28,355
RestasisCyclosporine22$23,788
XiidraLifitegrast12$17,526
LumiganBimatoprost30$14,325
Prednisolone Acetate469$12,688
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl440$8,971
Bromfenac Sodium48$7,389
Travoprost17$6,746
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol36$5,250
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone53$2,217
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat94$1,880
Latanoprost257$1,837
Olopatadine Hcl13$1,745
Brimonidine Tartrate27$1,639
Timolol Maleate169$1,379

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$703$38,11352 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa$20$28,35583 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$234$17,52612 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 70th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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