RxDoctor Payments Data

Shannon Steinhauser

Optometrist · Phoenix, AZNPI 1447255310

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.5%), consulting fees and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 35.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,570 and has fallen 86.6% since, to $479 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in AZ 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.

$12,548in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 187 payments — averaging $67.10 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$4K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$3K
  • Novartis$955
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$739
  • Alcon$590
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$448
  • plus $2K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,00032%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,43819%
  • Food & beverage$6,09149%
  • Entertainment$190%

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

$12,548 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,134 optometrist providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$31,226
Medicare patients
162
Services billed
390

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
LumiganBimatoprost36$15,560
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod31$10,611
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost20$6,910
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart27$6,712
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol11$1,998
Latanoprost64$356
Timolol Maleate24$224

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$33$15,56036 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$3,053$10,61131 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$25$6,91020 claims
AlconSimbrinza$590$6,71227 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 1,134 optometrist providers in Arizona.

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