RxDoctor Payments Data

Joshua Groetsch, MD

Ophthalmology · Metairie, LANPI 1669497590

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 187 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 28 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 27.0% of the total.

$5,786in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 187 payments — averaging $30.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$2K
  • AbbVie$873
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$460
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$448
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$288
  • Glaukos Corporation$282
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,72799%
  • Gifts$451%
  • Entertainment$140%

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

$5,786 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 286 ophthalmology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$162,323
Medicare patients
493
Services billed
1,563

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
RestasisCyclosporine58$73,444
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost50$28,265
IlevroNepafenac74$27,692
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod68$26,419
XiidraLifitegrast23$17,998
LumiganBimatoprost50$17,768
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate16$17,378
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol43$16,103
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart62$14,519
Cyclosporine22$13,711
Prednisolone Acetate317$11,835
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium21$7,567
Brimonidine Tartrate299$6,800
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate11$5,012
Bromfenac Sodium21$4,463

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, Combigan$873$107,315151 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Xiidra$460$44,41791 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$40$33,27661 claims
NovartisIlevro$43$27,69274 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$204$17,37816 claims
AlconSimbrinza$1,560$14,51962 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa$72$7,56721 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 80th percentile of 286 ophthalmology providers in Louisiana.

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