John Swogger
Ophthalmology · Columbus, OHNPI 1033473483
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 81 payments — averaging $40.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- NEW World Medical,inc.$1K
- AbbVie$1K
- Alcon$720
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$149
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$65
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$25
- plus $35 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,10794%
- Education$2006%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 11 | $1,180 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 44 | $1,133 |
| Alcon | 20 | $720 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $149 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $65 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $24 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $11 |
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.
- Ahmed Glaucoma Valve$897
- Kahook Dual Blade$897
- Clearpath$430
- Streamline$430
- Via360$261
- XEN$260
- Streamline Surgical System$254
- Centurion$162
- Rocklatan$108
- Rhopressa$108
How this compares
$3,307 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 640 ophthalmology providers in Ohio.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 239 | $112,186 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 118 | $50,503 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 159 | $32,332 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 74 | $31,078 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 27 | $30,266 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 62 | $23,573 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 19 | $22,015 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 635 | $19,791 |
| Cyclosporine | 26 | $19,512 |
| Latanoprost | 1,514 | $18,252 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 43 | $18,106 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 851 | $17,798 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 28 | $12,957 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 241 | $10,665 |
| ZioptanTafluprost/Pf | 13 | $7,248 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P, Restasis, Combigan | $1,133 | $170,731348 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan | $149 | $81,581192 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $720 | $18,10643 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 70th percentile of 640 ophthalmology providers in Ohio.
Other ophthalmology in Columbus
- David RogersColumbus$1.5M
- Alice EpitropoulosColumbus$702K
- Steven KatzColumbus$256K
- David LehmannColumbus$58K
- Lisa BorkowskiColumbus$25K
- John PajkaLima$17.7M
- Justis EhlersCleveland$5M
- Lawrence SingermanBeachwood$3.9M
- Sunil SrivastavaCleveland$2.8M
- Daniel MillerCincinnati$2.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.