RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Leary

Optometrist · New Bern, NCNPI 1083755763

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,491 of the $7,039 with a category attached, or 63.8%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 27.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,617, 3.6 times the $724 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in NC 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.

$7,039in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 153 payments — averaging $46.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$2K
  • Coopervision Inc.$2K
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$892
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$829
  • Notal Vision, Inc.$285
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$273
  • plus $886 from 15 others
$2,790in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $42.27 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.

  • Notal Vision, Inc.$3K

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,00014%
  • Travel & lodging$1,49421%
  • Food & beverage$4,49164%
  • Entertainment$541%

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

$7,039 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$145,545
Medicare patients
735
Services billed
7,433

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
RestasisCyclosporine88$105,750
LumiganBimatoprost97$47,527
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol29$7,657
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart25$5,182
Cyclosporine11$3,747
Brimonidine Tartrate33$3,636
Loteprednol Etabonate24$3,342
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone63$3,048
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol11$2,707
Latanoprost129$1,528
Travoprost17$1,369
Fluorometholone15$1,325
Prednisolone Acetate17$704
Ofloxacin15$214
Timolol Maleate19$82

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$107$160,934214 claims
AlconSimbrinza$1,954$5,18225 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$892$3,34224 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 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.

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