RxDoctor Payments Data

Lawrence Pham

Optometrist · Gonzales, LANPI 1730444704

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 313 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,719, 5.6 times the $487 reported in 2019. 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.

$9,152in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 313 payments — averaging $29.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
  • Alcon$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$865
  • Glaukos Corporation$785
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$382
  • plus $2K from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,152100%

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

$9,152 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
$67,259
Medicare patients
242
Services billed
1,423

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
LumiganBimatoprost158$86,762
RestasisCyclosporine58$75,600
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol109$33,547
XdemvyLotilaner11$20,342
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart51$10,648
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol62$9,362
Travoprost42$9,185
Latanoprost448$4,652
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone88$3,919
Brimonidine Tartrate68$3,595
Fluorometholone57$3,551
Timolol Maleate141$1,507
Prednisolone Acetate47$1,378
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat77$1,159
Dorzolamide Hcl44$731

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
AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Combigan$1,120$195,908325 claims
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy$377$20,34211 claims
AlconSimbrinza$1,607$10,64851 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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