RxDoctor Payments Data

Seth Pantanelli, MD

Ophthalmology · Hershey, PANPI 1225270226

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $106,698 of the $141,834 with a category attached, or 75.2%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. at 56.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $42,949 and has fallen 54.4% since, to $19,601 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$141,834in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 136 payments — averaging $1042.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$79K
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$28K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc.$15K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$6K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec Digital Innovations LLC$5K
  • Alcon$4K
  • plus $4K from 9 others
$405,893in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $20,295 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Alcon Research LLC$167K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec Production LLC$88K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc.$86K
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$35K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$30K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$106,69875%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$21,53015%
  • Travel & lodging$3,3482%
  • Food & beverage$4,8403%
  • Other$5,4184%

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

$141,834 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$140,556
Medicare patients
421
Services billed
1,083

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
RestasisCyclosporine29$28,139
Prednisolone Acetate381$15,186
Fluorometholone90$6,444
Cyclosporine11$4,184
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl66$4,089
Loteprednol Etabonate24$3,292
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol14$2,808
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl44$1,524
Brimonidine Tartrate27$727
ErythromycinErythromycin Base41$641
Famciclovir12$551
Polymyxin B Sul-TrimethoprimPolymyxin B Sulf/Trimethoprim75$453
Doxycycline Hyclate16$445
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat36$403
Latanoprost34$295

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, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$28,332$3,29224 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 95th percentile of 920 ophthalmology providers in Pennsylvania.

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