RxDoctor Payments Data

Neil Watkins, MD

Ophthalmology · Gary, INNPI 1295744993

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,648in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $33.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$2K
  • AbbVie$292
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$94
  • Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$87
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$64
  • Shire North American Group Inc$38
  • plus $281 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,23584%
  • Education$39415%
  • Gifts$191%

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

$2,648 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 266 ophthalmology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$58,969
Medicare patients
262
Services billed
469

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
RestasisCyclosporine33$49,038
LumiganBimatoprost94$42,979
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart43$10,251
Brimonidine Tartrate84$8,031
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost15$5,863
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate17$5,399
Travoprost51$4,252
Latanoprost402$1,937
Prednisolone Acetate74$1,365
Brinzolamide25$1,172
Timolol Maleate60$1,156
Dorzolamide Hcl67$1,035
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol11$1,035
Atropine Sulfate11$380
Azelastine Hcl24$333

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, Alphagan P$292$97,415144 claims
AlconSimbrinza$37$10,25143 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$26$5,86315 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 266 ophthalmology providers in Indiana.

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