RxDoctor Payments Data

Parag Gokhale, MD

Ophthalmology · Seattle, WANPI 1790706307

Payments from drug & device makers

$156in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $51.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • NEW World Medical,inc.$117
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec AG$19
  • Alcon$19

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$13688%
  • Gifts$1912%

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

19
20
22

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
NEW World Medical,inc.1$117
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG1$19
Alcon1$19

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

$156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 428 ophthalmology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$306,108
Medicare patients
868
Services billed
4,578

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
LumiganBimatoprost127$61,397
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod66$33,378
RestasisCyclosporine29$24,509
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate48$18,635
Latanoprost1,591$18,356
Travoprost85$13,850
Brimonidine Tartrate509$12,964
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol24$11,052
Prednisolone Acetate229$10,907
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf64$10,822
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate16$8,780
Timolol Maleate518$7,982
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat422$7,541
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost15$6,112
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf39$4,852

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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