RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Gagnon, MD

Ophthalmology · Pleasanton, CANPI 1164525598

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,424in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 105 payments — averaging $32.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$637
  • Alcon$591
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$390
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$332
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$277
  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$160
  • plus $1K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$34110%
  • Food & beverage$3,01488%
  • Gifts$191%
  • Entertainment$491%

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

$3,424 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$910,755
Medicare patients
1,714
Services billed
6,761

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
RestasisCyclosporine118$129,343
XiidraLifitegrast70$88,699
Cyclosporine54$29,868
LumiganBimatoprost53$26,125
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart92$22,987
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate33$22,657
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost35$20,492
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf20$17,118
Loteprednol Etabonate53$10,391
Prednisolone Acetate284$9,956
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod18$9,137
Ketorolac Tromethamine530$8,332
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate12$7,686
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol16$7,317
Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate28$6,990

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$119$173,295209 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Miebo, Vyzulta$277$114,954108 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$48$28,17847 claims
AlconSimbrinza$591$22,98792 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$107$22,65733 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate, Lotemax Sm$56$17,38281 claims
Akorn, Inc.Zioptan$19$4,70412 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 65th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

Other ophthalmology in Pleasanton

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