RxDoctor Payments Data

Vijay Khetpal, MD

Ophthalmology · Sherman, TXNPI 1538369194

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,524in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 40 payments — averaging $38.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Genentech USA, Inc.$297
  • Alimera Sciences, Inc.$175
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$153
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$143
  • Novartis$139
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$119
  • plus $498 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,31987%
  • Education$1158%
  • Gifts$372%
  • Entertainment$533%

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

$1,524 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,695,359
Medicare patients
1,171
Services billed
24,501

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
RestasisCyclosporine111$102,082
Fluorometholone275$22,645
Prednisolone Acetate355$18,816
Cyclosporine33$11,214
LumiganBimatoprost26$9,473
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat433$7,208
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha315$3,628
Latanoprost464$3,123
ErythromycinErythromycin Base218$2,370
Tobramycin251$1,462
Brimonidine Tartrate153$1,227
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol12$1,146
Timolol Maleate105$835
Atropine Sulfate14$729
Acyclovir23$260

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$60$111,555137 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 40th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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