RxDoctor Payments Data

Joseph Khawly, MD

Ophthalmology · Houston, TXNPI 1215919998

Payments from drug & device makers

$259,087in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 106 payments — averaging $2444.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$212K
  • US Retina LLC$35K
  • AbbVie$8K
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$4K
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$300
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$222
  • plus $584 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,3556%
  • Food & beverage$2,8877%
  • Ownership interest$34,95387%

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

$259,087 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$4,886,560
Medicare patients
1,203
Services billed
93,524

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
LumiganBimatoprost19$9,845
Difluprednate77$8,914
Ketorolac Tromethamine276$7,972
Prednisolone Acetate155$7,480
Brimonidine Tartrate328$4,936
Atropine Sulfate96$2,584
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat178$2,291
Latanoprost177$1,543
Timolol Maleate60$821
Ofloxacin81$688

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$7,646$9,84519 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 90th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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