RxDoctor Payments Data

Samantha Stahr, OD

Optometrist · Suffolk, VANPI 1437562592

Payments from drug & device makers

$629in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $18.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$107
  • Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$54
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$51
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$47
  • Shire North American Group Inc$46
  • Harrow Eye, LLC$44
  • plus $280 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$61297%
  • Gifts$173%

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.

How this compares

$629 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$146,627
Medicare patients
748
Services billed
1,572

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
XiidraLifitegrast17$27,378
LumiganBimatoprost40$25,544
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost13$13,105
Cyclosporine14$12,953
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol43$6,394
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol18$4,442
Prednisolone Acetate68$3,711
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart17$3,579
Latanoprost227$2,639
Loteprednol Etabonate12$2,619
Brimonidine Tartrate12$2,540
Travoprost30$1,818
Timolol Maleate77$1,744
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat106$1,543
Dorzolamide Hcl22$648

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$42$29,98658 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$33$27,37817 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$54$13,10513 claims
AlconSimbrinza$35$3,57917 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 40th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.

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