RxDoctor Payments Data

Jean Kassem, MD

Ophthalmology · Bellingham, WANPI 1588844294

Payments from drug & device makers

$605in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $20.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$169
  • AbbVie$147
  • Alcon$96
  • Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$41
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$26
  • GSK$22
  • plus $103 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$58597%
  • Gifts$193%

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

$605 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 428 ophthalmology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$275,815
Medicare patients
538
Services billed
4,557

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
RestasisCyclosporine21$24,252
TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone13$3,702
ErythromycinErythromycin Base320$3,682
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha276$3,442
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone34$2,077
Pyridostigmine Bromide21$1,913
Fluorometholone22$1,506
Brimonidine Tartrate68$709
Latanoprost36$631
Dorzolamide Hcl12$323
Timolol Maleate24$245
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat15$100
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav16$88

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$147$24,25221 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 40th percentile of 428 ophthalmology providers in Washington.

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