RxDoctor Payments Data

Daryl Pfister, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Tempe, AZNPI 1801868088

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,608in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 67 payments — averaging $23.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$231
  • Alcon$225
  • Eyepoint US, Inc.$173
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$155
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$154
  • Amgen$135
  • plus $534 from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,608100%

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

Too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Arizonato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$472,532
Medicare patients
583
Services billed
2,276

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 Acetate1,037$29,978
Ketorolac Tromethamine1,048$19,045
Ofloxacin941$10,419
LumiganBimatoprost11$6,407
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol15$1,897
Timolol Maleate17$168
Latanoprost30$100
Tobramycin17$89

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
AbbVieLumigan$79$6,40711 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. There are too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Arizonaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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