RxDoctor Payments Data

Lucy Shen, MD

Ophthalmology · Boston, MANPI 1881860922

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (39.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Topcon Healthcare, Inc. accounts for 66.1% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,461 and has fallen 97.7% since, to $78 in 2025.

$5,044in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $458.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$3K
  • AbbVie$2K
$14,913in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $7456.25 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.

  • Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$15K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,35027%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,00040%
  • Travel & lodging$1,04721%
  • Food & beverage$64713%

General payments by program year

19
22
24
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Topcon Healthcare, Inc.6$3,332
AbbVie(2 entities)5$1,712

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

$5,044 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$269,582
Medicare patients
580
Services billed
3,128

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
LumiganBimatoprost94$38,924
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate88$35,615
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf109$18,432
Brinzolamide87$12,779
Methazolamide23$12,097
Prednisolone Acetate320$11,535
Timolol MaleateTimolol Maleate/Pf32$10,169
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf57$9,982
Latanoprost972$9,839
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol49$9,356
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol29$9,288
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat560$9,010
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart40$8,900
Timolol Maleate331$7,705
Brimonidine Tartrate444$7,529

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$1,712$48,212123 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 80th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.

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