RxDoctor Payments Data

John Kroger, MD

Ophthalmology · Marion, OHNPI 1740712785

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,610in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $39.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$845
  • AbbVie$245
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$155
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$118
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$106
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$62
  • plus $79 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,59799%
  • Education$131%

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

$1,610 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 640 ophthalmology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$229,396
Medicare patients
573
Services billed
1,943

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
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine14$8,855
LumiganBimatoprost32$8,583
Prednisolone Acetate282$7,845
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol37$6,785
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol27$6,588
Cyclosporine19$4,414
Travoprost38$3,240
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart16$3,239
Brinzolamide15$2,351
Latanoprost441$2,041
Brimonidine Tartrate74$1,893
Ciprofloxacin Hcl197$1,868
Fluorometholone21$1,775
Timolol Maleate161$1,112
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat61$716

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 Multidose, Lumigan, Combigan$245$24,02573 claims
AlconSimbrinza$845$3,23916 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 640 ophthalmology providers in Ohio.

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