RxDoctor Payments Data

Rubin Brecher, MD

Ophthalmology · Lawrence, NYNPI 1609842749

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,595in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $35.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$710
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$530
  • Alcon$298
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$226
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$168
  • Novartis$156
  • plus $506 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,595100%

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

$2,595 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
$2,298,606
Medicare patients
679
Services billed
30,254

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
EysuvisLoteprednol Etabonate166$82,162
RestasisCyclosporine53$36,686
XiidraLifitegrast30$30,081
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol55$19,004
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart64$15,365
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost41$15,082
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate30$11,752
LumiganBimatoprost27$10,791
Latanoprost821$8,468
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium13$5,029
Loteprednol Etabonate39$4,771
Brinzolamide34$4,611
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol18$4,317
Cyclosporine21$4,227
Timolol Maleate73$4,198

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
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Eysuvis$19$82,162166 claims
AbbVieRestasis, Combigan, Lumigan$98$66,480135 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$530$26,83371 claims
AlconSimbrinza$298$15,36564 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Loteprednol Etabonate$135$9,80052 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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