RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Choi, MD

Ophthalmology · West Hills, CANPI 1679078216

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,653in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $47.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$727
  • Amgen$270
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$195
  • NEW World Medical,inc.$138
  • Dompe US, Inc.$116
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$66
  • plus $142 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,653100%

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

$1,653 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$29,610
Medicare patients
69
Services billed
138

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$56,748
Prednisolone Acetate880$37,343
Cyclosporine56$29,242
XiidraLifitegrast29$26,067
LumiganBimatoprost23$10,663
Ofloxacin664$9,843
Brinzolamide16$4,435
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart21$4,186
Brimonidine Tartrate138$3,794
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol24$3,520
Latanoprost354$3,237
Travoprost23$2,310
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat147$2,212
Timolol Maleate91$932
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl24$565

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.Xiidra$66$26,06729 claims
AlconSimbrinza$727$4,18621 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 55th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

Other ophthalmology in West Hills

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