RxDoctor Payments Data

Ephraim Atwal, MD

Ophthalmology · Cheektowaga, NYNPI 1194915371

Payments from drug & device makers

$41,290in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 256 payments — averaging $161.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon Research LLC$25K
  • Alcon$11K
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$3K
  • AbbVie$442
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$422
  • Glaukos Corporation$357
  • plus $1K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$25,05261%
  • Travel & lodging$7,00417%
  • Food & beverage$9,23422%

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

$41,290 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$165,153
Medicare patients
238
Services billed
914

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
RestasisCyclosporine173$226,218
LumiganBimatoprost345$196,184
XiidraLifitegrast93$120,414
Cyclosporine176$110,957
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost112$57,412
Prednisolone Acetate923$50,114
Brimonidine Tartrate330$46,499
Travoprost137$39,334
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol113$39,183
Latanoprost1,737$34,842
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol70$34,551
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart100$31,438
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat460$15,282
Ketorolac Tromethamine860$14,337
Timolol Maleate446$13,136

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, Combigan, Alphagan P$442$468,081610 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$70$57,412112 claims
AlconSimbrinza$11,059$31,438100 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLotemax, Loteprednol Etabonate$422$9,41231 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$158$7,62114 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 90th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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