RxDoctor Payments Data

Douglas Lewis, MD

Ophthalmology · Austin, TXNPI 1225013980

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,430in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $28.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$845
  • Rxsight Inc$143
  • Alcon$138
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$74
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$64
  • Novartis$32
  • plus $134 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,36696%
  • Other$644%

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

$1,430 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$84,831
Medicare patients
496
Services billed
786

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
RestasisCyclosporine24$36,696
Cyclosporine37$21,827
XiidraLifitegrast11$6,940
Travoprost23$5,097
Latanoprost279$3,018
Timolol Maleate59$2,130
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha53$648
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat25$331
ErythromycinErythromycin Base26$257
Doxycycline Monohydrate17$196

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$845$36,69624 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$20$6,94011 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 40th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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