RxDoctor Payments Data

Kristina Lynch-Guyette, MD

Ophthalmology · Albany, NYNPI 1770578833

Payments from drug & device makers

$842in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $21.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$296
  • AbbVie$70
  • Amgen$68
  • Alcon$58
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$55
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$48
  • plus $247 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$82498%
  • Education$182%

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.

How this compares

$842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$52,362
Medicare patients
249
Services billed
709

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
RestasisCyclosporine44$74,595
XiidraLifitegrast34$47,501
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate12$11,091
Cyclosporine24$8,663
Travoprost17$6,704
Brimonidine Tartrate16$4,267
Latanoprost150$2,104
Timolol Maleate18$1,804
ErythromycinErythromycin Base33$498
Ofloxacin18$206

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$70$74,59544 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$40$47,50134 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$40$11,09112 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 45th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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