RxDoctor Payments Data

Laurie Sicard

Optometrist · Lafayette, LANPI 1821220591

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,906 of the $6,900 with a category attached, or 85.6%. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,318 and has fallen 59.0% since, to $950 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in LA 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.

$6,900in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 244 payments — averaging $28.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Glaukos Corporation$778
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$653
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$430
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$401
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$79211%
  • Food & beverage$5,90686%
  • Education$1001%
  • Entertainment$1021%

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

$6,900 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 500 optometrist providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$99,112
Medicare patients
605
Services billed
1,118

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
RestasisCyclosporine250$266,422
LumiganBimatoprost149$68,692
XiidraLifitegrast60$48,394
Cyclosporine104$45,740
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol70$28,790
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost32$13,933
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate16$11,486
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod32$11,247
VevyeCyclosporine15$11,222
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol44$7,023
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart27$5,530
Travoprost23$4,074
Loteprednol Etabonate19$4,069
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf28$3,656
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate11$3,363

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, Combigan$1,407$363,904469 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$94$59,64192 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$85$17,29643 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$401$11,48616 claims
Harrow Eye, LLCVevye$23$11,22215 claims
AlconSimbrinza$1,435$5,53027 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$298$4,06919 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 500 optometrist providers in Louisiana.

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