RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Alpren, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Milwaukee, WINPI 1508853474

Payments from drug & device makers

$696in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 34 payments — averaging $20.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$106
  • Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$80
  • Alcon$75
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$62
  • Harrow Eye, LLC$52
  • The Cameron-ehlen Group, Inc.$47
  • plus $274 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$66195%
  • Gifts$365%

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.

How this compares

Too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Wisconsinto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$88,101
Medicare patients
436
Services billed
983

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
RestasisCyclosporine31$43,188
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod43$21,178
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost26$17,202
Cyclosporine11$11,115
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol45$9,045
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart15$5,353
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol11$4,922
Latanoprost329$4,717
LumiganBimatoprost12$3,209
Fluorometholone27$2,689
Travoprost20$2,212
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat101$1,717
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf12$1,523
Prednisolone Acetate37$1,499
Timolol Maleate79$476

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, Lumigan$106$51,31954 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$62$21,17843 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan$21$17,20226 claims
AlconSimbrinza$75$5,35315 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. There are too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Wisconsinon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

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