RxDoctor Payments Data

Vaitheeswaran Ganesan Lalgudi, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Buffalo, NYNPI 1093424715

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 19 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 5 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 59.8% of the total. That places this record below the midpoint for cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in NY, where the typical reported total is $2,257.

$692in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $36.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$414
  • Rxsight Inc$128
  • Amgen$115
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$18
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$17

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$692100%

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

$692 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 26 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$131,366
Medicare patients
196
Services billed
835

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
OxervateCenegermin-Bkbj12$342,137
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf106$81,304
Prednisolone Acetate803$42,783
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol69$12,396
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost27$9,404
Ketorolac Tromethamine410$9,190
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl326$8,487
Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine12$7,322
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart34$6,658
Brimonidine Tartrate61$6,276
Fluorometholone66$5,166
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate15$4,736
Ofloxacin319$4,343
ErythromycinErythromycin Base218$2,754
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl94$2,599

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo$17$81,304106 claims
AlconSimbrinza$414$6,65834 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 20th percentile of 26 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in New York.

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