RxDoctor Payments Data

Nikola Ragusa, MD

Ophthalmology · Bronx, NYNPI 1568625192

Payments from drug & device makers

$81,084in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 280 payments — averaging $289.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$51K
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$8K
  • NEW World Medical,inc.$6K
  • Ivantis, Inc$4K
  • Alcon$4K
  • Lensar, Inc.$4K
  • plus $5K from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$25,95232%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$40,05249%
  • Travel & lodging$4,2035%
  • Food & beverage$10,73813%
  • Education$1000%
  • Gifts$390%

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

$81,084 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$138,227
Medicare patients
241
Services billed
1,129

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
XiidraLifitegrast208$198,040
RestasisCyclosporine205$171,197
LumiganBimatoprost98$56,829
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate93$56,655
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost74$43,041
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol80$41,657
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod37$20,921
Latanoprost1,798$19,941
Prednisolone Acetate387$18,189
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart54$14,184
EysuvisLoteprednol Etabonate24$12,425
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat436$8,931
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol29$8,899
Brimonidine Tartrate360$7,165
IyuzehLatanoprost/Pf13$5,321

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$559$269,684383 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$1,647$218,961245 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$50,687$99,696167 claims
AlconSimbrinza$4,015$14,18454 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 90th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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