RxDoctor Payments Data

Jonathan Benjamin, MD

Ophthalmology · Wantagh, NYNPI 1558332072

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,411in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $36.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Glaukos Corporation$355
  • Alcon$342
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$294
  • AbbVie$262
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$162
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$162
  • plus $833 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,411100%

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

$2,411 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$451,210
Medicare patients
1,420
Services billed
3,625

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
LumiganBimatoprost58$34,675
RestasisCyclosporine22$30,030
Travoprost37$9,416
Cyclosporine15$8,068
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone121$5,087
Timolol Maleate89$4,275
Brimonidine Tartrate32$3,431
Prednisolone Acetate75$2,845
Latanoprost235$2,334
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat83$1,505
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha76$727
Dorzolamide Hcl31$479
Ofloxacin16$255
ErythromycinErythromycin Base18$206

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, Restasis$262$64,70580 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 60th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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