RxDoctor Payments Data

Lisa Genovese

Optometrist · Amherst, NYNPI 1487659553

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (42.1%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Reichert, Inc. at 46.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $29,370 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $1,980 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NY 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.

$80,220in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 286 payments — averaging $280.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Reichert, Inc.$37K
  • LKC Technologies, Inc.$17K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$16K
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
  • Alcon$2K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$987
  • plus $5K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$33,77242%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$31,02139%
  • Travel & lodging$6,0788%
  • Food & beverage$9,28412%
  • Gifts$190%
  • Entertainment$450%

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

$80,220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$25,289
Medicare patients
88
Services billed
630

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
XiidraLifitegrast19$25,755
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf17$13,070
Cyclosporine14$10,549
LumiganBimatoprost13$4,295
Loteprednol Etabonate21$3,280
Timolol Maleate23$2,342
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol12$1,838
Latanoprost153$1,226
Brimonidine Tartrate18$386
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone15$385

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Miebo$987$38,82536 claims
AbbVieLumigan$555$4,29513 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$524$3,28021 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 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.

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