RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Applebaum, MD

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery · Lakeland, FLNPI 1700175304

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $26,980 of the $39,405 with a category attached, or 68.5%. Amgen accounts for 90.6% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $24,038 and has fallen 94.7% since, to $1,282 in 2025.

$39,405in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 221 payments — averaging $178.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$36K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$686
  • ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$553
  • Coopervision Inc.$306
  • Dompe US, Inc.$228
  • AbbVie$190
  • plus $2K from 21 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$3,82510%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$26,98068%
  • Travel & lodging$1,6514%
  • Food & beverage$6,93918%
  • Education$100%

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

$39,405 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 37 ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$460,288
Medicare patients
416
Services billed
4,377

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
RestasisCyclosporine22$30,920
ErythromycinErythromycin Base405$3,906
Prednisolone Acetate64$1,945
Fluorometholone25$1,771
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha132$1,312
Methylprednisolone51$373
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen52$202
Latanoprost17$168
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen16$80
Azithromycin21$62
Tramadol Hcl33$58
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron13$57

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$190$30,92022 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 80th percentile of 37 ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery providers in Florida.

Other ophthalmic plastic and reconstructive surgery in Lakeland

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