RxDoctor Payments Data

Kenneth Lipstock, MD

Ophthalmology · Richmond, VANPI 1275716847

Payments from drug & device makers

$360in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $25.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$89
  • Rxsight Inc$58
  • Notal Vision, Inc.$48
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$38
  • Alcon$37
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$34
  • plus $56 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$4813%
  • Food & beverage$23766%
  • Gifts$7521%

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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25

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.

How this compares

$360 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$188,069
Medicare patients
858
Services billed
2,109

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
RestasisCyclosporine22$27,132
LumiganBimatoprost24$11,824
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate12$9,904
Brimonidine Tartrate39$7,991
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate22$7,902
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol22$7,206
Fluorometholone58$4,071
Latanoprost214$2,306
Prednisolone Acetate56$1,422
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat74$1,275
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone24$779
Timolol Maleate36$450
Dorzolamide Hcl11$379
Ofloxacin16$137
Bacitracin-PolymyxinBacitracin/Polymyxin B Sulfate11$124

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
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$20$9,90412 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 30th percentile of 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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