RxDoctor Payments Data

Jason Brenner, MD

Ophthalmology · Brookline, MANPI 1750674719

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 72.9% of it on its own, with 29 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among ophthalmology clinicians in MA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$30,700in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 318 payments — averaging $96.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$22K
  • Glaukos Corporation$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$672
  • Lensar, Inc.$650
  • Novartis$502
  • plus $3K from 24 others
$21,800in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $1453.33 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Rxsight Inc$22K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$18,28160%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$510%
  • Travel & lodging$2,3608%
  • Food & beverage$9,96332%
  • Gifts$450%

General payments by program year

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25

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

$30,700 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$409,270
Medicare patients
866
Services billed
2,451

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
RestasisCyclosporine65$54,330
LumiganBimatoprost44$25,897
XdemvyLotilaner12$21,733
XiidraLifitegrast18$21,655
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod29$14,771
Cyclosporine32$12,460
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol21$8,845
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol35$5,996
Ketorolac Tromethamine254$5,599
Loteprednol Etabonate25$5,470
Brimonidine Tartrate76$3,917
Prednisolone Acetate73$3,643
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone59$3,425
Latanoprost199$3,000
Brinzolamide14$2,732

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, Lumigan, Combigan$1,135$89,072130 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$143$36,42647 claims
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy$672$21,73312 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 90th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.

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