RxDoctor Payments Data

Marc Toeteberg-Harms, MD

Ophthalmology · Iowa City, IANPI 1164187019

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.0%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 51.6% of the total. Among ophthalmology clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$20,928in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $367.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$11K
  • Iridex Corporation$8K
  • Alcon$618
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$501
  • Reichert, Inc.$500
  • AbbVie$404
  • plus $306 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,00043%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$7,10034%
  • Travel & lodging$1,5187%
  • Food & beverage$3,30216%
  • Education$80%

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

$20,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 172 ophthalmology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$144,611
Medicare patients
555
Services billed
1,972

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
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost43$24,905
LumiganBimatoprost31$17,702
Brimonidine Tartrate406$13,078
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol29$12,989
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate28$10,915
Latanoprost712$8,058
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat384$7,852
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol41$7,657
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod19$7,444
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart11$4,900
Brinzolamide14$4,680
Travoprost28$3,102
Prednisolone Acetate47$2,515
Timolol Maleate175$2,509
Dorzolamide Hcl77$1,712

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$404$30,69160 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$10,790$7,44419 claims
AlconSimbrinza$618$4,90011 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 90th percentile of 172 ophthalmology providers in Iowa.

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