RxDoctor Payments Data

Sarah Gordon, OD

Optometrist · Birmingham, ALNPI 1235121153

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,160in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $23.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$340
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$213
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$123
  • Alcon$109
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$62
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$56
  • plus $258 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,160100%

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

$1,160 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 749 optometrist providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$46,783
Medicare patients
221
Services billed
2,811

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
RestasisCyclosporine42$49,588
LumiganBimatoprost52$26,301
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod24$14,117
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf18$12,347
CequaCyclosporine19$10,652
Brinzolamide33$7,824
Latanoprost69$1,294
Brimonidine Tartrate22$1,075
Fluorometholone16$927
Prednisolone Acetate15$727
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat25$596
Dorzolamide Hcl24$588
Doxycycline Hyclate14$369
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl15$313
Timolol Maleate16$247

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, Lumigan$53$75,89094 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Miebo$123$26,46542 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$213$10,65219 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 55th percentile of 749 optometrist providers in Alabama.

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