RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Pappavaselio, MD

Ophthalmology · Lawrence, MANPI 1437133386

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,399in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 50 payments — averaging $27.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$277
  • AbbVie$236
  • Amgen$217
  • Alcon$200
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$103
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$101
  • plus $265 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,30994%
  • Gifts$906%

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

$1,399 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$295,672
Medicare patients
947
Services billed
3,350

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
RestasisCyclosporine162$205,393
XiidraLifitegrast23$38,944
XdemvyLotilaner19$36,941
Cyclosporine45$25,136
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate39$19,695
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol20$17,006
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium38$13,144
Bromfenac Sodium50$11,535
Prednisolone Acetate193$9,741
LumiganBimatoprost15$7,315
Latanoprost404$5,014
Brimonidine Tartrate95$4,250
Fluorometholone40$3,740
Brinzolamide15$3,724
Ofloxacin174$1,840

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$236$229,714197 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$13$38,94423 claims
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy$28$36,94119 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$89$19,69539 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 55th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.

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