RxDoctor Payments Data

Matthias Helfrich

Optometrist · Elyria, OHNPI 1801025754

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,959in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $69.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • Novartis$181
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$171
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$120
  • Ivantis, Inc$48
  • Amgen$41
  • plus $135 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,25064%
  • Food & beverage$70936%

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

$1,959 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$67,580
Medicare patients
341
Services billed
917

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
XiidraLifitegrast23$36,125
RestasisCyclosporine25$29,912
Cyclosporine26$15,838
LumiganBimatoprost13$7,910
Brimonidine Tartrate27$3,339
Latanoprost148$1,981
Prednisolone Acetate36$1,223
Azelastine Hcl60$1,119
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha89$808
Timolol Maleate18$155
Dorzolamide Hcl12$150

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$17$37,82238 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$171$36,12523 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 75th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.

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