RxDoctor Payments Data

Cory Bower, OD

Optometrist · Cedar Rapids, IANPI 1407848203

Payments from drug & device makers

$289in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $26.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$95
  • Alcon$47
  • AbbVie$40
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$36
  • Shire North American Group Inc$29
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$22
  • plus $21 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$289100%

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.

How this compares

$289 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 559 optometrist providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$260,420
Medicare patients
1,829
Services billed
2,855

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
RestasisCyclosporine63$47,917
LumiganBimatoprost22$12,323
Cyclosporine35$12,274
Fluorometholone105$8,701
Latanoprost743$4,609
Travoprost33$4,142
Prednisolone Acetate68$3,319
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate14$2,408
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol14$2,167
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat152$1,920
Brimonidine Tartrate67$1,817
ErythromycinErythromycin Base143$1,165
Doxycycline Hyclate29$614
Timolol Maleate77$567
Dorzolamide Hcl28$338

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, Alphagan P$40$62,64899 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 559 optometrist providers in Iowa.

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