RxDoctor Payments Data

Ismail Shalaby, MD

Ophthalmology · Baltimore, MDNPI 1881761815

Payments from drug & device makers

$11,916in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 411 payments — averaging $28.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$3K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Alcon Research LLC$1K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$871
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$769
  • plus $4K from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,0509%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2102%
  • Travel & lodging$6806%
  • Food & beverage$9,89183%
  • Education$400%
  • Gifts$450%

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

$11,916 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$358,209
Medicare patients
788
Services billed
2,599

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
LumiganBimatoprost127$80,071
RestasisCyclosporine50$52,762
XiidraLifitegrast32$44,469
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod104$41,810
CequaCyclosporine44$28,969
Cyclosporine30$23,921
Bromfenac Sodium93$22,006
Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate84$20,777
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium50$17,017
VevyeCyclosporine12$16,137
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate15$15,834
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol32$12,151
Travoprost17$4,921
Brimonidine Tartrate71$4,829
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate13$4,654

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$1,284$144,984209 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$769$86,280136 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLotemax Sm, Prolensa, Loteprednol Etabonate$274$41,114164 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$1,007$28,96944 claims
Harrow Eye, LLCVevye$495$16,13712 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$463$15,83415 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$264$4,65413 claims
AlconSimbrinza$3,219$4,62618 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 80th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

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