RxDoctor Payments Data

Rajiv Luthra, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Washington, DCNPI 1457381410

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,031in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 87 payments — averaging $23.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$567
  • Alcon$236
  • Heru, Inc.$153
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$145
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$145
  • Shire North American Group Inc$123
  • plus $661 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,01199%
  • Gifts$191%

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

Too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in District of Columbiato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$203,847
Medicare patients
453
Services billed
1,772

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
RestasisCyclosporine53$48,068
XiidraLifitegrast37$25,208
LumiganBimatoprost28$12,076
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate37$11,787
Cyclosporine33$11,402
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol17$9,706
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost17$5,650
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol30$4,930
Prednisolone Acetate88$4,420
Brimonidine Tartrate25$4,034
Brinzolamide16$3,513
Travoprost18$3,499
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf27$2,827
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf11$1,765
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone35$1,702

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, Combigan$567$69,85098 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$44$25,20837 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$145$17,43854 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. There are too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in District of Columbiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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