RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Goergen

Optometrist · Atlantic, IANPI 1598730954

Payments from drug & device makers

$426in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $20.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$268
  • Optos, Inc.$117
  • AbbVie$41

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$426100%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Alcon17$268
Optos, Inc.2$117
AbbVie2$41

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

$426 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 559 optometrist providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$261,216
Medicare patients
1,141
Services billed
3,215

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
LumiganBimatoprost78$32,662
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol62$18,682
RestasisCyclosporine20$13,216
Latanoprost323$3,023
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol12$2,649
Brimonidine Tartrate35$2,551
Prednisolone Acetate27$985
Dorzolamide Hcl42$795
Timolol Maleate100$702
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone23$620
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl18$381
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat15$342

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, Combigan, Restasis$41$64,560160 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 50th percentile of 559 optometrist providers in Iowa.

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