RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Chaglasian, OD

Optometrist · Chicago, ILNPI 1841283330

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (48.3%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Topcon Healthcare, Inc. at 28.5% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$367,065in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 560 payments — averaging $655.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$105K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$63K
  • AbbVie$38K
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$30K
  • Thea Pharma Inc.$24K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$22K
  • plus $85K from 24 others
$318,125in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $35,347 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.

  • Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$316K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$3K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$177,34048%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$132,57536%
  • Travel & lodging$36,20010%
  • Food & beverage$18,8005%
  • Education$60%
  • Entertainment$2,1461%

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

$367,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,257 optometrist providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$17,930
Medicare patients
68
Services billed
193

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
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol47$15,912
LumiganBimatoprost49$14,054
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate26$8,014
Travoprost56$7,586
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost18$6,216
Latanoprost515$5,175
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart11$5,006
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat258$3,899
Brimonidine Tartrate124$2,961
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol11$2,877
Prednisolone Acetate13$512
Timolol Maleate67$432
Dorzolamide Hcl33$363

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
AbbVieCombigan, Lumigan, Alphagan P$37,620$37,979122 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$14,814$6,21618 claims
AlconSimbrinza$13,066$5,00611 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 95th percentile of 2,257 optometrist providers in Illinois.

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