RxDoctor Payments Data

Gene Lee, MD

Ophthalmology · Chattanooga, TNNPI 1568646974

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,698in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 190 payments — averaging $19.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$446
  • Alcon$326
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$313
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$260
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$239
  • plus $1K from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,698100%

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

$3,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 323 ophthalmology providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$247,003
Medicare patients
943
Services billed
1,906

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
RestasisCyclosporine110$109,342
XiidraLifitegrast44$43,024
Prednisolone Acetate235$11,065
Cyclosporine22$11,059
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol26$10,812
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod19$8,562
LumiganBimatoprost25$8,449
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost14$5,839
Latanoprost335$5,552
Ketorolac Tromethamine201$2,907
Doxycycline Hyclate43$2,485
Travoprost17$2,104
Ofloxacin191$1,905
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone36$1,613
Methazolamide18$1,612

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, Combigan, Lumigan$1,107$128,603161 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$219$51,58663 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$170$5,83914 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 70th percentile of 323 ophthalmology providers in Tennessee.

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