RxDoctor Payments Data

Jason Luksich, MD

Ophthalmology · Santa Cruz, CANPI 1225110810

Payments from drug & device makers

$373in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $93.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$107
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$99
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$94
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$73

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$373100%

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

$373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$365,928
Medicare patients
976
Services billed
2,373

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
XiidraLifitegrast41$49,454
RestasisCyclosporine36$41,098
Cyclosporine56$28,119
LumiganBimatoprost62$22,647
Prednisolone Acetate506$15,571
Latanoprost878$12,123
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf27$7,552
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate22$6,881
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl392$6,306
Ketorolac Tromethamine411$5,221
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat263$4,798
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol13$4,524
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate15$4,519
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart16$4,121
Brinzolamide14$2,669

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, Alphagan P$107$72,787126 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$99$6,88122 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 25th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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