RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Buranosky, MD

Ophthalmology · Chicago, ILNPI 1558399949

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,820in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 182 payments — averaging $37.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Novartis$719
  • Alcon$646
  • Harrow Eye, LLC$313
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$278
  • plus $2K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,06516%
  • Travel & lodging$1,19618%
  • Food & beverage$4,56067%

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

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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

$6,820 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$381,598
Medicare patients
1,099
Services billed
3,119

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
RestasisCyclosporine133$114,448
LumiganBimatoprost143$60,413
XiidraLifitegrast50$43,390
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate57$21,415
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost44$21,274
Cyclosporine44$18,651
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol57$14,743
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod31$11,913
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate17$7,350
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart26$7,008
Prednisolone Acetate212$6,637
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol31$6,209
Latanoprost468$5,883
Travoprost39$4,869
Brimonidine Tartrate89$2,781

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
AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan, Combigan, Alphagan P$1,148$196,955350 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$228$55,30381 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$253$42,689101 claims
AlconSimbrinza$646$7,00826 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 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.

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