RxDoctor Payments Data

Philip Ferrone, MD

Ophthalmology · Great Neck, NYNPI 1164535472

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $105,181 of the $155,457 with a category attached, or 67.7%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 36.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $54,780, 2.3 times the $23,355 reported in 2019. Among ophthalmology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$155,457in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 320 payments — averaging $485.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$57K
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$23K
  • Alcon$19K
  • Genentech, Inc.$13K
  • Regeneron$12K
  • Novartis$9K
  • plus $23K from 20 others
$5,605,305in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,777 payments — averaging $3154.36 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Genentech, Inc.$2.1M
  • Regeneron$2.1M
  • Bayer$900K
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$255K
  • Eyepoint US, Inc.$180K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$6K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$105,18168%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$15,82210%
  • Travel & lodging$21,14314%
  • Food & beverage$13,2949%
  • Gifts$170%

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

$155,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$3,949,897
Medicare patients
1,225
Services billed
39,766

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
RestasisCyclosporine14$11,846
Prednisolone Acetate133$6,678
Travoprost33$5,389
IlevroNepafenac12$5,123
Bromfenac Sodium23$4,698
Eplerenone18$1,866
Ofloxacin58$1,153
Ketorolac Tromethamine28$953
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat49$661
Latanoprost71$567
Timolol Maleate19$230
Dorzolamide Hcl14$164
Doxycycline Hyclate12$52

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$3,090$11,84614 claims
NovartisIlevro$8,526$5,12312 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 95th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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