RxDoctor Payments Data

Joshua Paul, MD

Ophthalmology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1427580802

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,452in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $26.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$321
  • Alcon$261
  • Glaukos Corporation$171
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$142
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$121
  • Coopervision Inc.$118
  • plus $319 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,449100%
  • Education$30%

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

$1,452 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$227,135
Medicare patients
608
Services billed
2,459

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
XiidraLifitegrast153$173,986
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate162$87,770
LumiganBimatoprost162$80,620
RestasisCyclosporine51$48,150
Cyclosporine87$38,375
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart133$31,977
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol158$27,021
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost31$23,698
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod46$22,389
Brimonidine Tartrate498$17,331
Travoprost66$16,755
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium33$11,738
Latanoprost841$11,622
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol46$10,840
Prednisolone Acetate248$9,491

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$321$196,375199 claims
AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Combigan, Alphagan P$46$143,949275 claims
AlconSimbrinza$261$31,977133 claims
Thea Pharma Inc.Iyuzeh$60$4,16311 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 50th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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