RxDoctor Payments Data

Leslie Katz

Ophthalmology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1306887542

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $83,175 of the $104,849 with a category attached, or 79.3%. AbbVie accounts for 70.2% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $73,035 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $332 in 2023. Among ophthalmology clinicians in PA 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.

$104,849in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 164 payments — averaging $639.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$74K
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$29K
  • Glaukos Corporation$2K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$345
  • Quidel Corporation$157
  • Dompe US, Inc.$56
$54,294in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $4524.47 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • AbbVie$28K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$27K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,7202%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$83,17579%
  • Travel & lodging$16,24315%
  • Food & beverage$3,7124%

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

$104,849 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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