RxDoctor Payments Data

Samantha Herretes, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Kansas City, MONPI 1770995862

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,566 of the $11,145 with a category attached, or 76.9%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 44.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,277 and has fallen 72.7% since, to $1,168 in 2025.

$11,145in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 162 payments — averaging $68.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$5K
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$3K
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$748
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$591
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$390
  • Novartis$349
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,48222%
  • Food & beverage$8,56677%
  • Education$981%

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

Too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Missourito place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$218,427
Medicare patients
646
Services billed
1,443

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
RestasisCyclosporine217$162,585
Cyclosporine117$46,943
XiidraLifitegrast44$42,355
Prednisolone Acetate619$25,409
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate21$14,021
Fluorometholone147$12,622
CequaCyclosporine17$10,747
Ofloxacin251$3,154
FlarexFluorometholone Acetate14$3,120
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl73$2,423
Loteprednol Etabonate12$2,237
ErythromycinErythromycin Base134$1,764
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl36$1,397
Doxycycline Hyclate35$749
Ketorolac Tromethamine32$731

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$141$162,585217 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$591$42,35544 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$144$14,02121 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$390$10,74717 claims
Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLCFlarex$19$3,12014 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. There are too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Missourion file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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