RxDoctor Payments Data

Roger Velasquez, MD

Ophthalmology · San Antonio, TXNPI 1205154895

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,710in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $57.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Rxsight Inc$3K
  • AbbVie$966
  • Alcon$811
  • Amgen$276
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$182
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$107
  • plus $691 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$59816%
  • Food & beverage$3,11284%

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

$5,710 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$266,272
Medicare patients
482
Services billed
2,638

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
LumiganBimatoprost148$62,398
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod103$41,510
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate58$33,853
XiidraLifitegrast27$28,591
Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate80$19,752
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol49$17,640
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart57$17,327
RestasisCyclosporine17$13,101
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol85$12,267
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium35$11,890
Travoprost69$10,678
Brimonidine Tartrate253$10,439
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate16$8,749
Brinzolamide31$6,558
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost19$6,140

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, Restasis, Alphagan P$966$101,888230 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Xiidra$182$70,101130 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$98$39,99377 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLotemax Sm, Prolensa, Loteprednol Etabonate$66$33,397127 claims
AlconSimbrinza$811$17,32757 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 75th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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