RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Szmodis, MD

Ophthalmology · Mechanicsburg, PANPI 1093933566

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,546in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 110 payments — averaging $23.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$554
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$554
  • Alcon$423
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$237
  • Novartis$210
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$126
  • plus $442 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,546100%

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

$2,546 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$218,161
Medicare patients
514
Services billed
1,452

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
RestasisCyclosporine52$52,304
LumiganBimatoprost77$44,814
Cyclosporine41$23,693
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol67$19,091
CequaCyclosporine12$15,543
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod31$15,138
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart26$11,135
Travoprost37$10,307
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost13$7,536
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol14$4,728
Brimonidine Tartrate28$4,538
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat88$2,133
Brinzolamide11$2,064
Latanoprost156$1,809
Timolol Maleate35$1,211

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$554$101,845143 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$554$15,54312 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$126$15,13831 claims
AlconSimbrinza$423$11,13526 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$237$7,53613 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 60th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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