Has Perin Thompson, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,234 in general payments to Perin Thompson, MD across 58 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Perin Thompson, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Perin Thompson, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Perin Thompson, MD

Ophthalmology · Florence, ALNPI 1669458725

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,234in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 58 payments — averaging $38.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$2K
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$131
Alcon$91
AbbVie$82
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$70
Novartis$58
plus $170 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,13496%
Education$1004%

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

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.

Company	Payments	Total
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	27	$1,631
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	3	$131
Alcon	5	$91
AbbVie	5	$82
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$70
Novartis	3	$58
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$40
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$30
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	2	$29
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	2	$28
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	1	$15
Beaver-visitec International, Inc.	1	$10

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.

Tecnis Simplicity$229
Tecnis IOL$217

How this compares

$2,234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 197 ophthalmology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$218,047

Medicare patients

467

Services billed

2,026

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

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Prednisolone Acetate	229	$11,719
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	32	$4,174
Latanoprost	292	$3,897
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	180	$3,871
Diclofenac Sodium	207	$3,244
Famciclovir	13	$3,031
Ofloxacin	174	$2,186
Timolol Maleate	65	$661
Doxycycline Hyclate	24	$417
Minocycline Hcl	14	$340
Brimonidine Tartrate	28	$297
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	11	$199
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim	11	$33
Alprazolam	12	$10

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Florence

Sebastian HeersinkDothan$3.9M
Bret FisherHomewood$821K
Caroline WatsonHuntsville$292K
Ronald GrossFairhope$254K
Ann Arciniegas-BernalBirmingham$142K
Harsha SenDothan$140K
John CoxHuntsville$118K
Young ChoiVestavia$76K
Kristin BainsBirmingham$40K
Price KloessMountain Brk$26K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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