RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Newland, MD

Ophthalmology · Walterboro, SCNPI 1417060260

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,244in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $22.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$470
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$363
  • Amgen$273
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$244
  • AbbVie$208
  • NEW World Medical,inc.$119
  • plus $568 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,244100%

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

$2,244 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$409,981
Medicare patients
967
Services billed
4,834

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
RestasisCyclosporine28$43,626
LumiganBimatoprost68$37,065
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate67$34,133
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol22$11,776
Cyclosporine17$10,082
Prednisolone Acetate241$9,456
Latanoprost559$4,755
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol41$4,456
Ketorolac Tromethamine155$4,238
Brimonidine Tartrate165$4,233
Timolol Maleate199$2,822
Ofloxacin138$1,823
ErythromycinErythromycin Base175$1,800
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat64$950
Dorzolamide Hcl43$811

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$208$92,467118 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$73$34,13367 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 50th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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