Has Margaret Pfeiffer, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,278 in general payments to Margaret Pfeiffer, MD across 64 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Margaret Pfeiffer, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Margaret Pfeiffer, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Margaret Pfeiffer, MD

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Dallas, TXNPI 1679816862

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,278 of the $4,278 with a category attached, or 76.6%. Amgen accounts for 77.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest.

$4,278in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $66.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$3K
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$230
Kerecis Limited$171
Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC$163
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$153
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$140
plus $108 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,00023%
Food & beverage$3,27877%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Amgen(2 entities)	46	$3,313
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	8	$230
Kerecis Limited	1	$171
Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$163
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$153
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	2	$140
AbbVie	2	$64
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$28
Harrow Eye, LLC	1	$16

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

$4,278 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 36 ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$227,898

Medicare patients

390

Services billed

7,009

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	444	$4,926
Prednisolone Acetate	27	$1,510
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	76	$892
Tramadol Hcl	186	$281
Ofloxacin	24	$252
Doxycycline Hyclate	14	$169
Methylprednisolone	13	$93

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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