RxDoctor Payments Data

Sukesh Kansal, MD

Ophthalmology · Salina, KSNPI 1760479240

Payments from drug & device makers

$78in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $39.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$60
  • Novartis$18

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$78100%

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

19
25

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Alcon1$60
Novartis1$18

How this compares

$78 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 135 ophthalmology providers in Kansas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,046,099
Medicare patients
661
Services billed
12,119

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
RestasisCyclosporine55$39,811
LumiganBimatoprost76$23,026
Prednisolone Acetate501$18,310
XiidraLifitegrast25$17,212
Travoprost78$8,270
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost19$5,807
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate17$5,653
Brimonidine Tartrate152$4,490
Ofloxacin293$3,502
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart15$2,990
Diclofenac Sodium259$2,702
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol13$2,575
Brinzolamide19$1,875
Timolol Maleate237$1,420
Dorzolamide Hcl69$1,277

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
AlconSimbrinza$60$2,99015 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 10th percentile of 135 ophthalmology providers in Kansas.

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