RxDoctor Payments Data

Kelsey Kleinsasser, OD

Optometrist · Kansas City, MONPI 1740278944

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 363 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 32 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among optometrist clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$9,966in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 363 payments — averaging $27.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
  • Alcon$777
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$764
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$719
  • Glaukos Corporation$671
  • plus $4K from 26 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$260%
  • Food & beverage$9,933100%
  • Education$80%

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

$9,966 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,030 optometrist providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$262,096
Medicare patients
1,164
Services billed
3,400

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
LumiganBimatoprost393$218,748
RestasisCyclosporine111$133,340
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol139$59,852
XiidraLifitegrast39$55,726
Cyclosporine36$31,682
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate49$24,013
XdemvyLotilaner11$20,807
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol92$18,031
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart49$14,361
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod21$12,476
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf16$12,189
Latanoprost718$11,863
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost17$10,668
Brimonidine Tartrate33$5,903
Travoprost31$5,091

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, Restasis, Combigan, Alphagan P$2,217$435,953692 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta, Miebo$1,079$80,39176 claims
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy$105$20,80711 claims
AlconSimbrinza$777$14,36149 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$371$10,66817 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$764$1,47013 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 95th percentile of 1,030 optometrist providers in Missouri.

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