RxDoctor Payments Data

Ramesh Kode, MD

Ophthalmology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1447291877

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,407in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 164 payments — averaging $14.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Halozyme Inc$876
  • AbbVie$312
  • Alcon$289
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$223
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$118
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$105
  • plus $485 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,407100%

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.

How this compares

$2,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 640 ophthalmology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$414,172
Medicare patients
1,187
Services billed
7,784

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
RestasisCyclosporine51$64,578
LumiganBimatoprost44$30,863
Prednisolone Acetate694$16,259
Ketorolac Tromethamine762$10,534
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol32$9,157
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol27$8,541
Latanoprost605$7,611
Ofloxacin702$6,638
ErythromycinErythromycin Base484$4,693
Timolol Maleate207$4,501
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate12$3,950
Brimonidine Tartrate57$2,532
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat101$1,195
Bacitracin13$1,106
Dorzolamide Hcl33$537

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$312$103,981122 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$52$3,95012 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 65th percentile of 640 ophthalmology providers in Ohio.

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