RxDoctor Payments Data

David W Burk, MD

Ophthalmology · Bay City, MINPI 1083621288

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,835in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $27.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$652
  • AbbVie$243
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$217
  • Zimmer Biomet$141
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$136
  • Novartis$123
  • plus $324 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,835100%

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

$1,835 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 674 ophthalmology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$323,156
Medicare patients
1,102
Services billed
3,205

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
RestasisCyclosporine45$47,899
Cyclosporine64$43,800
LumiganBimatoprost72$34,682
Brimonidine Tartrate189$30,002
XiidraLifitegrast25$27,020
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate64$23,357
Latanoprost885$18,790
Brinzolamide57$11,685
Prednisolone Acetate243$10,357
Travoprost60$9,813
Timolol Maleate78$5,231
TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone17$4,453
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol21$4,075
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol12$3,428
Ketorolac Tromethamine182$2,832

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, Combigan$243$109,367193 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$136$27,02025 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 674 ophthalmology providers in Michigan.

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