RxDoctor Payments Data

Leonard Rappaport, MD

Ophthalmology · Portsmouth, VANPI 1659381408

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.2%), consulting fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. accounts for 77.9% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $27,011 and has fallen 94.6% since, to $1,458 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in VA 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.

$85,097in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 265 payments — averaging $321.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$66K
  • Alcon$14K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • NEW World Medical,inc.$474
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$461
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$397
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$30,19935%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$37,59244%
  • Travel & lodging$7,9659%
  • Food & beverage$9,34211%

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

$85,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$582,158
Medicare patients
1,226
Services billed
5,064

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
LumiganBimatoprost592$323,961
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate327$181,680
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol271$108,158
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost189$97,657
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod199$89,370
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate175$70,708
Brimonidine Tartrate727$68,578
RestasisCyclosporine48$68,484
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol346$57,994
Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate128$33,343
Brinzolamide166$30,343
Prednisolone Acetate650$27,255
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart89$25,484
XiidraLifitegrast15$18,597
Cyclosporine15$11,359

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, Combigan, Alphagan P, Restasis$2,133$571,3111,086 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$66,289$279,336516 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Xiidra$461$107,967214 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLotemax Sm, Loteprednol Etabonate$397$36,668145 claims
AlconSimbrinza, Azopt$13,516$32,317104 claims
Thea Pharma Inc.Iyuzeh$45$6,55512 claims
NovartisIlevro$40$4,45312 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 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

Other ophthalmology in Portsmouth

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