RxDoctor Payments Data

Edward Parelhoff, MD

Ophthalmology · Springfield, VANPI 1255307955

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.1% of the total across 42 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 15 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $230 and has fallen 59.0% since, to $94 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for ophthalmology clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $1,018.

$952in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 42 payments — averaging $22.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$153
  • Amgen$120
  • Alcon$109
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$95
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$91
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$66
  • plus $318 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$94399%
  • Education$91%

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

$952 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,632
Medicare patients
53
Services billed
92

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
Latanoprost11$87

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Springfield

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