RxDoctor Payments Data

Dean Polistina, MD

Ophthalmology · New York, NYNPI 1386756146

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,642in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $22.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$494
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$146
  • AbbVie$145
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$139
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$100
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$100
  • plus $517 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,642100%

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

$1,642 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$286,713
Medicare patients
836
Services billed
1,960

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
LumiganBimatoprost94$57,327
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol35$19,728
RestasisCyclosporine11$13,015
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart47$12,094
Brimonidine Tartrate65$10,181
Prednisolone Acetate218$8,916
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate14$7,456
Latanoprost524$5,693
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate16$4,837
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol29$4,504
Travoprost18$4,092
Ketorolac Tromethamine175$3,400
Timolol Maleate197$2,314
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone51$2,081
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf11$1,447

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, Combigan, Restasis, Alphagan P$145$94,907156 claims
AlconSimbrinza$494$12,09447 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$69$7,45614 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 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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