RxDoctor Payments Data

Nagavivek Vasuki, MD

Ophthalmology · Florence, SCNPI 1508158544

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,692in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $32.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$2K
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$355
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$124
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$109
  • Rxsight Inc$98
  • AbbVie$89
  • plus $291 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,59496%
  • Education$984%

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

$2,692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$317,923
Medicare patients
560
Services billed
2,315

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
Prednisolone Acetate634$28,588
RestasisCyclosporine24$16,419
XiidraLifitegrast23$15,738
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol42$12,377
LumiganBimatoprost21$9,641
Diclofenac Sodium485$7,896
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium21$7,019
Cyclosporine12$5,894
Brinzolamide41$5,639
Brimonidine Tartrate102$5,139
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol33$4,331
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod14$3,960
Latanoprost555$3,744
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart11$2,174
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate11$2,158

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, Combigan, Lumigan, Alphagan P$89$40,59598 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$19$19,69837 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa$15$7,01921 claims
AlconSimbrinza$1,626$2,17411 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 55th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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