RxDoctor Payments Data

Troy Elander, MD

Ophthalmology · Santa Monica, CANPI 1205858396

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,447in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 69 payments — averaging $35.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$908
  • Optos, Inc.$327
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$170
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$149
  • Novartis$143
  • AbbVie$134
  • plus $615 from 15 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$181%
  • Food & beverage$2,39298%
  • Education$181%
  • Gifts$191%

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

$2,447 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$495,925
Medicare patients
1,587
Services billed
3,443

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
RestasisCyclosporine88$52,292
LumiganBimatoprost62$28,704
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium51$17,438
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf20$14,601
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod15$9,747
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol38$9,116
InveltysLoteprednol Etabonate28$8,216
Difluprednate68$6,403
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart19$6,148
Travoprost41$5,540
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl289$5,168
Cyclosporine25$4,584
Bromfenac Sodium22$4,402
Prednisolone Acetate152$4,368
TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone14$3,717

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$134$80,996150 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo, Vyzulta$77$24,34835 claims
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa$149$17,43851 claims
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inveltys$77$8,21628 claims
AlconSimbrinza$908$6,14819 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 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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