RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Krause, PhD

Ophthalmology · Charlottesville, VANPI 1962933424

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,137in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $108.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$3K
  • Nova Eye, Inc.$369
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$281
  • Alcon$174
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$82

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$71617%
  • Food & beverage$3,42183%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AbbVie(2 entities)28$3,231
Nova Eye, Inc.1$369
Sight Sciences, Inc.4$281
Alcon4$174
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.1$82

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

$4,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$248,735
Medicare patients
726
Services billed
2,248

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
LumiganBimatoprost30$14,307
Prednisolone Acetate254$12,635
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate27$9,682
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart22$6,668
Latanoprost734$6,549
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate15$5,492
Brimonidine Tartrate173$5,446
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol17$5,041
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat273$4,521
Timolol Maleate185$4,088
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl152$3,807
Travoprost25$3,394
Dorzolamide Hcl106$2,351
Bimatoprost17$1,165
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf13$801

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
AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P$3,231$19,80045 claims
AlconSimbrinza$174$6,66822 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 509 ophthalmology providers in Virginia.

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