RxDoctor Payments Data

Philip Niswander, MD

Ophthalmology · Williamsville, NYNPI 1306844550

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,526in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $41.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • AbbVie$110
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$105
  • Amgen$20
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec AG$19
  • Shire North American Group Inc$12

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$77551%
  • Food & beverage$73248%
  • Gifts$191%

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.

How this compares

$1,526 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$76,178
Medicare patients
421
Services billed
742

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
XiidraLifitegrast85$121,697
LumiganBimatoprost158$68,731
Cyclosporine58$42,871
RestasisCyclosporine30$32,639
Brimonidine Tartrate97$14,022
Travoprost50$10,639
CequaCyclosporine11$10,105
Timolol Maleate174$9,730
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod30$9,724
Latanoprost810$9,382
Prednisolone Acetate138$7,207
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone158$5,980
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol45$5,639
Loteprednol Etabonate26$4,385
Brinzolamide13$4,268

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, Restasis, Alphagan P$110$105,502203 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$105$10,10511 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 50th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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