RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Cheung

Optometrist · Bakersfield, CANPI 1639464555

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,389in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 219 payments — averaging $29.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC$2K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$706
  • Novartis$702
  • Alcon$509
  • Coopervision Inc.$437
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$406
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,00016%
  • Food & beverage$5,13980%
  • Gifts$2504%

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

$6,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$35,339
Medicare patients
202
Services billed
353

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
Latanoprost73$699
Prednisolone Acetate13$283
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat18$217

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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