RxDoctor Payments Data

Mark Schefkind, MD

Ophthalmology · Alexandria, VANPI 1972500650

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,612in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 120 payments — averaging $21.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$912
  • Alcon$357
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$253
  • Notal Vision, Inc.$219
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$142
  • Novartis$137
  • plus $592 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2198%
  • Food & beverage$2,39492%

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.

How this compares

$2,612 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$901,082
Medicare patients
2,989
Services billed
7,684

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
RestasisCyclosporine62$89,182
LumiganBimatoprost54$35,694
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate31$18,229
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol22$12,834
Cyclosporine18$9,442
Latanoprost427$5,378
Travoprost18$5,336
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart20$5,046
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone87$3,363
Prednisolone Acetate85$3,192
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol30$3,046
Brimonidine Tartrate65$2,406
Loteprednol Etabonate16$2,075
Timolol Maleate154$1,803
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat104$1,597

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$912$137,710138 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$35$18,22931 claims
AlconSimbrinza$357$5,04620 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$41$2,07516 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 70th percentile of 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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