RxDoctor Payments Data

Neil Kalbag, MD

Ophthalmology · Waterbury, CTNPI 1861806002

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,360 of the $2,672 with a category attached, or 88.3%. It is spread thinly across 20 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.

$2,672in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 95 payments — averaging $28.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$530
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$295
  • Regeneron$224
  • Alcon$209
  • AbbVie$204
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$197
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2248%
  • Food & beverage$2,36088%
  • Education$883%

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

$2,672 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 279 ophthalmology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,487,227
Medicare patients
862
Services billed
13,131

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
RestasisCyclosporine41$41,966
LumiganBimatoprost49$29,226
XiidraLifitegrast24$22,997
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost29$15,212
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol33$12,350
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod17$11,327
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol50$9,172
Timolol Maleate136$8,396
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate16$7,024
Cyclosporine15$4,804
Prednisolone Acetate114$3,491
Travoprost21$3,004
Latanoprost265$2,573
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat133$1,700
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone50$1,527

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$204$83,543123 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$168$34,32441 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 75th percentile of 279 ophthalmology providers in Connecticut.

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