RxDoctor Payments Data

Robert Weisenthal, MD

Ophthalmology · East Syracuse, NYNPI 1508957507

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,569in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $55.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Glaukos Corporation$1K
  • Alcon$779
  • Dompe US, Inc.$330
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$163
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$56
  • Harrow Eye, LLC$38
  • plus $130 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,05041%
  • Food & beverage$1,49958%
  • 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

$2,569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$222,433
Medicare patients
456
Services billed
1,344

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
Loteprednol Etabonate73$15,515
Prednisolone Acetate317$14,484
Fluorometholone108$12,015
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol42$9,232
LumiganBimatoprost12$7,592
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol16$5,800
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone74$4,820
Timolol Maleate67$1,858
Latanoprost136$1,654
Brimonidine Tartrate15$1,271
Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate16$999
Ketorolac Tromethamine15$731
Atropine Sulfate27$698
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat29$679
ErythromycinErythromycin Base34$334

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, Combigan$14$13,39228 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 60th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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