RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Foote, MD

Ophthalmology · El Paso, TXNPI 1275678492

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,947in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 281 payments — averaging $31.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$798
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$620
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$557
  • plus $3K from 25 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$481%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$390%
  • Food & beverage$8,79298%
  • Education$491%
  • Gifts$200%

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

$8,947 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$289,190
Medicare patients
692
Services billed
2,774

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
RestasisCyclosporine206$253,539
IlevroNepafenac289$113,003
Cyclosporine125$93,789
LumiganBimatoprost195$83,064
XiidraLifitegrast55$77,742
XdemvyLotilaner21$38,194
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol91$31,278
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol209$28,748
Brinzolamide122$27,918
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod57$23,985
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost49$23,415
Fluorometholone246$17,627
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine24$17,108
Prednisolone Acetate495$14,630
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart27$9,880

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, Restasis Multidose, Alphagan P$1,239$391,296531 claims
NovartisIlevro$381$113,003289 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$1,234$101,727112 claims
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy$620$38,19421 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$70$23,41549 claims
AlconSimbrinza$1,361$9,88027 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$344$8,00112 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Lotemax Sm, Loteprednol Etabonate$557$7,98834 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 80th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

Other ophthalmology in El Paso

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