RxDoctor Payments Data

Nicholas Chariton

Optometrist · Salida, CONPI 1427407287

Payments from drug & device makers

$317in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $19.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$56
  • Optos, Inc.$55
  • Alcon$51
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$38
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$37
  • AbbVie$28
  • plus $53 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$26383%
  • Entertainment$5517%

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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25

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.

How this compares

$317 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 1,025 optometrist providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$93,822
Medicare patients
550
Services billed
1,031

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
RestasisCyclosporine12$16,587
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate14$9,533
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate14$4,437
LumiganBimatoprost17$4,150
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol16$3,472
Latanoprost410$3,340
Fluorometholone18$1,806
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat82$1,776
Timolol Maleate88$1,144
Dorzolamide Hcl55$979
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl21$860
Prednisolone Acetate15$707
Brimonidine Tartrate49$702
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl16$327
ErythromycinErythromycin Base14$146

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$28$20,73729 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$18$9,53314 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$37$4,43714 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 30th percentile of 1,025 optometrist providers in Colorado.

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