RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Schwartz

Ophthalmology · San Francisco, CANPI 1740392901

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $7,851,671 of the $7,980,561 with a category attached, or 98.4%. Rxsight Inc accounts for 100.0% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,852,269 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $431 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in CA 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.

$7,980,561in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $199,514 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Rxsight Inc$8M
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$168
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$114
  • Alcon$58
  • AbbVie$24
  • Regeneron$20
  • plus $15 from 1 others
$30,325in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $30,325 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Coopervision Inc.$30K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$126,5252%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,851,67198%
  • Travel & lodging$1,6530%
  • Food & beverage$7130%

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

$7,980,561 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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