RxDoctor Payments Data

Lan Nguyen, MD

Ophthalmology · San Jose, CANPI 1174516264

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,922in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $33.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$733
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$384
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$314
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$192
  • Novartis$188
  • AbbVie$173
  • plus $939 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$120%
  • Food & beverage$2,54987%
  • Other$36012%

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

$2,922 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$495,934
Medicare patients
1,105
Services billed
4,657

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
RestasisCyclosporine139$127,667
Azelastine Hcl4,436$56,306
LumiganBimatoprost177$47,117
Cyclosporine105$45,873
Bepotastine Besilate316$43,252
XiidraLifitegrast30$32,585
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart157$31,864
Bromfenac Sodium126$25,155
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium63$21,607
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate74$18,552
Prednisolone Acetate490$16,651
IlevroNepafenac43$16,407
Travoprost143$15,665
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod47$14,076
Latanoprost1,568$12,338

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, Alphagan P, Combigan$173$197,431401 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$90$46,66177 claims
AlconSimbrinza$733$31,864157 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Besivance$109$24,21775 claims
NovartisIlevro$188$16,40743 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$314$5,86518 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Bromsite$192$4,49518 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 65th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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