RxDoctor Payments Data

Gary Torbey, DO

Ophthalmology · Potsdam, NYNPI 1487657888

Payments from drug & device makers

$549in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $19.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$127
  • Alcon$104
  • AbbVie$72
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$58
  • Amgen$52
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$52
  • plus $83 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$549100%

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

$549 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$342,545
Medicare patients
1,409
Services billed
6,167

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
LumiganBimatoprost126$68,285
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate70$53,390
RestasisCyclosporine33$49,934
Brinzolamide91$28,016
Travoprost84$25,259
Brimonidine Tartrate187$22,827
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol89$22,003
XiidraLifitegrast11$20,418
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost27$18,982
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol38$17,906
Timolol Maleate232$14,709
Cyclosporine21$13,198
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate26$11,584
Latanoprost803$11,190
Prednisolone Acetate276$10,707

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, Restasis, Combigan, Alphagan P$72$147,709223 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$58$72,37297 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$50$20,41811 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 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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