RxDoctor Payments Data

Jennifer Balentine, MD

Ophthalmology · Portland, ORNPI 1962482638

Payments from drug & device makers

$815in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $25.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$249
  • AbbVie$169
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$140
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$102
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$50
  • Thea Pharma Inc.$42
  • plus $63 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$79798%
  • Education$182%

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

$815 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 248 ophthalmology providers in Oregon.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$195,266
Medicare patients
621
Services billed
2,094

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
RestasisCyclosporine75$67,196
LumiganBimatoprost47$19,789
CequaCyclosporine19$14,806
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate24$14,404
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart56$11,583
Cyclosporine33$11,075
XiidraLifitegrast15$10,254
Latanoprost374$4,929
Prednisolone Acetate47$1,839
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone51$1,729
Brimonidine Tartrate26$872
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat50$839
Timolol Maleate68$781
Dorzolamide Hcl31$691
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl11$558

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$169$86,985122 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$50$14,80619 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$41$14,40424 claims
AlconSimbrinza$249$11,58356 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$102$10,25415 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 55th percentile of 248 ophthalmology providers in Oregon.

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