RxDoctor Payments Data

Kelly Larkin, MD

Ophthalmology · Bellaire, TXNPI 1497040471

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (52.0%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Amgen accounts for 73.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among ophthalmology clinicians in TX with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$37,836in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $286.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$28K
  • Regeneron$7K
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$377
  • AbbVie$271
  • Eyepoint US, Inc.$158
  • plus $775 from 14 others
$447,900in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $14,448 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Genentech, Inc.$309K
  • Eyepoint US, Inc.$107K
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$32K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$14,44338%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$19,66352%
  • Travel & lodging$1,3504%
  • Food & beverage$2,3636%
  • Education$180%

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

$37,836 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
$225,403
Medicare patients
312
Services billed
1,906

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
TepezzaTeprotumumab-Trbw12$679,892
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab75$678,978
RestasisCyclosporine41$33,096
Difluprednate307$29,882
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium75$26,906
Bromfenac Sodium147$22,013
CequaCyclosporine15$16,384
XiidraLifitegrast17$15,443
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf16$11,868
Prednisolone Acetate214$9,936
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol18$7,952
Cyclosporine12$7,478
DurezolDifluprednate16$4,537
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl81$4,107
Mycophenolate Mofetil35$3,548

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
AmgenTepezza$27,605$679,89212 claims
AbbVieRestasis, Combigan$271$41,04759 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Miebo$154$27,31233 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa$18$26,90675 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$377$16,38415 claims
NovartisDurezol$24$4,53716 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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