RxDoctor Payments Data

Paul Sforza, MD

Ophthalmology · Whitestone, NYNPI 1700869716

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,107in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 91 payments — averaging $45.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$1K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$491
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$410
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$310
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$258
  • AbbVie$217
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,03225%
  • Food & beverage$3,07475%

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

$4,107 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$307,934
Medicare patients
943
Services billed
2,282

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
RestasisCyclosporine41$52,406
LumiganBimatoprost36$22,672
Bromfenac Sodium168$21,395
Prednisolone Acetate470$14,967
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf17$13,460
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium34$11,941
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost16$8,529
Cyclosporine12$4,150
Travoprost15$3,791
Latanoprost291$3,280
Timolol Maleate40$3,188
Ofloxacin258$2,934
Brimonidine Tartrate48$2,372
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart11$2,033
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone45$1,674

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$217$75,07877 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo$491$13,46017 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa$73$11,94134 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$410$8,52916 claims
AlconSimbrinza$165$2,03311 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 70th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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