RxDoctor Payments Data

Sophia Chen, MD

Ophthalmology · Oakland, CANPI 1033183934

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,158in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 182 payments — averaging $22.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$910
  • Alcon$568
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$505
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$471
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$432
  • Glaukos Corporation$205
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,11399%
  • Gifts$451%

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

$4,158 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$663,810
Medicare patients
1,384
Services billed
4,215

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
XiidraLifitegrast217$284,201
LumiganBimatoprost370$198,812
RestasisCyclosporine89$128,642
TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate107$84,337
Cyclosporine88$42,790
Flurbiprofen Sodium303$27,589
CequaCyclosporine35$27,119
Prednisolone Acetate339$17,673
Latanoprost1,041$15,998
EysuvisLoteprednol Etabonate32$15,088
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost26$11,141
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart36$8,687
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate13$6,029
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod13$5,702
Pilocarpine Hcl129$5,432

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, Restasis, Combigan$910$330,968471 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$505$289,903230 claims
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya$471$84,337107 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$145$27,11935 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa$65$17,16939 claims
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Eysuvis$49$15,08832 claims
AlconSimbrinza$568$8,68736 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 70th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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