RxDoctor Payments Data

Salman Ali, MD

Ophthalmology · Linthicum Heights, MDNPI 1659474872

Payments from drug & device makers

$518in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 15 payments — averaging $34.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$245
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$123
  • Tearlab Corp$29
  • Alcon$25
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$25
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$21
  • plus $50 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$47892%
  • Education$408%

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

$518 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$397,047
Medicare patients
766
Services billed
3,673

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
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod105$66,790
LumiganBimatoprost81$47,070
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate98$45,886
XiidraLifitegrast36$29,556
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost33$23,118
Travoprost85$16,718
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart48$13,712
Brinzolamide53$11,261
Latanoprost871$10,054
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate18$9,932
Brimonidine Tartrate210$9,872
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf44$9,171
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol39$9,026
RestasisCyclosporine11$8,073
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf51$7,436

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Xiidra$20$96,347141 claims
AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P, Restasis, Combigan$245$71,574126 claims
AlconSimbrinza$25$13,71248 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 30th percentile of 493 ophthalmology providers in Maryland.

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