RxDoctor Payments Data

Terry Lu, OD

Optometrist · Opelousas, LANPI 1881379758

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,592in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 28 payments — averaging $56.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$323
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$292
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$221
  • Dompe US, Inc.$150
  • Amgen$111
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$103
  • plus $391 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,592100%

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

$1,592 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 500 optometrist providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$175,400
Medicare patients
892
Services billed
2,079

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
RestasisCyclosporine32$20,999
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol31$9,916
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol43$9,052
Prednisolone Acetate162$6,790
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart33$6,651
Latanoprost923$6,158
Brimonidine Tartrate230$5,826
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate13$4,240
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat151$2,314
Brinzolamide15$2,265
Cyclosporine13$2,115
Timolol Maleate179$1,987
Travoprost11$1,351
Doxycycline Hyclate19$711
Dorzolamide Hcl33$562

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, Combigan$20$30,91463 claims
AlconSimbrinza$323$6,65133 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 60th percentile of 500 optometrist providers in Louisiana.

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