RxDoctor Payments Data

Shaden Sarafzadeh, MD

Ophthalmology · Encino, CANPI 1346415395

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,567in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $41.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$907
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$121
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$120
  • Amgen$76
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$47
  • Thea Pharma Inc.$37
  • plus $258 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,52797%
  • Gifts$191%
  • Entertainment$211%

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

$1,567 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$153,612
Medicare patients
403
Services billed
1,626

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
LumiganBimatoprost75$33,949
RestasisCyclosporine37$32,593
XiidraLifitegrast28$21,103
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate35$12,135
Brimonidine Tartrate105$9,825
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate15$7,205
CequaCyclosporine12$7,001
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart29$5,692
Cyclosporine19$5,594
Travoprost27$5,005
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol18$4,740
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol21$3,622
Latanoprost343$3,304
Prednisolone Acetate82$2,395
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl78$1,567

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.Xiidra$47$21,10328 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$16$7,20515 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$32$7,00112 claims
AlconSimbrinza$907$5,69229 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 50th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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