RxDoctor Payments Data

Stuart Winthrop, MD

Ophthalmology · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1356344485

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,757in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $60.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$1K
  • Glaukos Corporation$436
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$426
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$347
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$240
  • Ivantis, Inc$167
  • plus $662 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,757100%

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

$3,757 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$904,435
Medicare patients
2,144
Services billed
8,330

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
LumiganBimatoprost174$86,170
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod194$65,050
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate49$25,806
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost28$14,417
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf17$12,862
Latanoprost1,422$10,854
RestasisCyclosporine13$8,069
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate14$7,775
Prednisolone Acetate183$7,742
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol25$7,560
Timolol Maleate555$7,386
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol46$6,976
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart27$6,556
Cyclosporine17$4,969
Brinzolamide26$4,455

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, Alphagan P, Combigan$90$109,575226 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Miebo$426$77,912211 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan$102$40,22377 claims
AlconSimbrinza$1,478$6,55627 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate$347$3,68812 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 65th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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