RxDoctor Payments Data

Michelle Langkawel

Optometrist · Northport, ALNPI 1861513467

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,105in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 54 payments — averaging $76.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$790
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$418
  • AbbVie$383
  • NEW World Medical,inc.$370
  • Glaukos Corporation$354
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$306
  • plus $1K from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,105100%

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

$4,105 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 749 optometrist providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$53,683
Medicare patients
350
Services billed
629

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
RestasisCyclosporine27$37,698
Cyclosporine33$32,157
LumiganBimatoprost39$16,503
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol58$12,894
Latanoprost539$9,996
Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate24$5,952
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol18$5,758
Travoprost20$4,529
Brimonidine Tartrate34$3,412
Loteprednol Etabonate11$3,167
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat107$2,234
Prednisolone Acetate43$1,599
Timolol Maleate91$1,477
Dorzolamide Hcl60$1,419
ErythromycinErythromycin Base47$546

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$383$59,95984 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 85th percentile of 749 optometrist providers in Alabama.

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