RxDoctor Payments Data

Mauricio Pons, MD

Retina Specialist · Chula Vista, CANPI 1376723759

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,884in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 126 payments — averaging $22.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$997
  • AbbVie$890
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$192
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$163
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$101
  • Amgen$92
  • plus $449 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,884100%

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

$2,884 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 187 retina specialist providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$918,208
Medicare patients
2,154
Services billed
9,199

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
XiidraLifitegrast234$196,424
RestasisCyclosporine143$157,458
Cyclosporine279$129,510
LumiganBimatoprost238$88,348
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate130$44,272
Brimonidine Tartrate756$44,066
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate127$37,383
Latanoprost2,573$31,111
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost62$26,693
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol92$24,210
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart110$21,781
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol57$13,676
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine17$10,050
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod23$9,181
Brinzolamide41$7,802

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, Alphagan P, Combigan, Restasis Multidose$890$317,449617 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$18$205,605257 claims
AlconSimbrinza$997$21,781110 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 40th percentile of 187 retina specialist providers in California.

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