RxDoctor Payments Data

Tailun Zhao, MD

Ophthalmology · El Cajon, CANPI 1952659203

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,580in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 126 payments — averaging $28.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$633
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$570
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$569
  • Alcon$388
  • Novartis$216
  • Glaukos Corporation$201
  • plus $1K from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,580100%

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

$3,580 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
$341,138
Medicare patients
681
Services billed
4,033

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
XiidraLifitegrast40$32,619
RestasisCyclosporine30$30,067
LumiganBimatoprost47$24,824
Cyclosporine35$15,337
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart54$11,190
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost13$7,045
ErythromycinErythromycin Base569$5,824
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol13$4,750
Brimonidine Tartrate109$4,690
Latanoprost429$4,224
Prednisolone Acetate94$3,262
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone75$3,028
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol22$2,649
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat109$2,498
Timolol Maleate71$1,911

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
AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan, Combigan$190$59,64190 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$569$32,61940 claims
AlconSimbrinza$388$11,19054 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$36$7,04513 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.

Other ophthalmology in El Cajon

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