RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Fellenbaum, MD

Ophthalmology · Albany, NYNPI 1871523662

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,633in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 81 payments — averaging $20.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$566
  • Alcon$359
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$312
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$123
  • Thea Pharma Inc.$69
  • Novartis$60
  • plus $144 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,633100%

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

$1,633 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$392,821
Medicare patients
1,046
Services billed
4,261

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
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod457$222,991
LumiganBimatoprost373$204,330
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost190$111,046
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate184$78,500
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate158$76,479
Brimonidine Tartrate544$70,574
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium139$48,579
Brinzolamide204$43,559
Timolol Maleate747$40,954
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart160$40,290
RestasisCyclosporine27$38,132
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol66$35,783
XiidraLifitegrast27$33,911
Travoprost128$30,325
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol193$26,013

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
AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P, Restasis, Combigan$566$356,745650 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Xiidra, Miebo$312$280,796509 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Lotemax Sm$59$61,002189 claims
AlconSimbrinza$359$40,290160 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$28$14,47520 claims
NovartisTravatan Z$60$14,34524 claims
Thea Pharma Inc.Iyuzeh$69$6,40813 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 55th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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