RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Speckner, MD

Ophthalmology · Oak Ridge, TNNPI 1972635910

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,052in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $24.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$708
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$377
  • Alcon$276
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$218
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$210
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$203
  • plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,03399%
  • Gifts$191%

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

$3,052 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 323 ophthalmology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$220,470
Medicare patients
654
Services billed
1,930

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
LumiganBimatoprost203$121,188
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol75$37,193
RestasisCyclosporine15$21,377
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate43$20,840
Brimonidine Tartrate241$14,608
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol87$13,711
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate17$13,319
Travoprost65$10,247
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart31$10,231
Latanoprost894$10,179
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod21$8,719
Timolol Maleate442$6,202
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat252$4,484
Prednisolone Acetate71$4,093
Dorzolamide Hcl133$3,155

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$708$200,599336 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$203$13,31917 claims
AlconSimbrinza$276$10,23131 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$38$8,71921 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 60th percentile of 323 ophthalmology providers in Tennessee.

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