RxDoctor Payments Data

Julibeth Alvarez, MD

Ophthalmology · Tamarac, FLNPI 1891066973

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,133in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 139 payments — averaging $44.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$771
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$582
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$558
  • Alcon$540
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$473
  • plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,05399%
  • Education$801%

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

$6,133 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,405 ophthalmology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$3,253
Medicare patients
22
Services billed
39

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
RestasisCyclosporine77$60,002
LumiganBimatoprost174$52,638
Bromfenac Sodium76$9,548
XiidraLifitegrast14$9,392
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart41$8,056
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl152$7,809
Prednisolone Acetate229$7,672
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol33$7,443
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost16$5,950
IlevroNepafenac15$5,345
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod18$5,100
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate13$4,082
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol49$2,846
Brimonidine Tartrate110$2,804
Latanoprost446$2,303

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$1,614$120,083284 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$582$14,49232 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$771$10,03229 claims
AlconSimbrinza$540$8,05641 claims
NovartisIlevro$22$5,34515 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 1,405 ophthalmology providers in Florida.

Other ophthalmology in Tamarac

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