RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Kahle, MD

Ophthalmology · Sebastopol, CANPI 1578541900

Payments from drug & device makers

$575in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $22.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Dompe US, Inc.$96
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$91
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$59
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$58
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$46
  • Alcon$43
  • plus $182 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$575100%

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.

How this compares

$575 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,382,668
Medicare patients
938
Services billed
14,558

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
RestasisCyclosporine36$28,026
Prednisolone Acetate413$19,882
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost15$11,448
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod25$11,393
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart38$9,091
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate21$8,732
Ketorolac Tromethamine305$8,651
Latanoprost688$6,746
Ofloxacin296$5,241
Travoprost17$3,355
Timolol Maleate175$2,597
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat102$2,199
Dorzolamide Hcl44$960
ErythromycinErythromycin Base62$659
Brimonidine Tartrate59$587

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$16$28,02636 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$46$20,18036 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$22$11,39325 claims
AlconSimbrinza$43$9,09138 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 35th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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