RxDoctor Payments Data

Lawrence Cecchi, MD

Ophthalmology · Syracuse, NYNPI 1720273485

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,681in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 203 payments — averaging $27.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Ivantis, Inc$793
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$596
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$309
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$255
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$5009%
  • Food & beverage$5,14591%
  • Gifts$371%

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

$5,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$321,081
Medicare patients
874
Services billed
2,545

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
XiidraLifitegrast140$152,951
RestasisCyclosporine86$116,545
Cyclosporine92$57,351
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine58$53,958
LumiganBimatoprost73$46,354
Difluprednate220$23,218
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf28$20,517
Timolol Maleate196$16,330
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod34$13,243
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol11$9,169
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl346$9,097
Prednisolone Acetate234$7,472
Latanoprost461$4,460
Brimonidine Tartrate56$4,018
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf20$3,096

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, Restasis Multidose, Lumigan, Combigan$1,050$226,025228 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Miebo, Vyzulta$309$186,710202 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 75th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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