RxDoctor Payments Data

Vincent Dahringer, MD

Ophthalmology · Raleigh, NCNPI 1912010190

Payments from drug & device makers

$615in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $76.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$563
  • AbbVie$33
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec AG$19

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$59697%
  • Gifts$193%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Alcon5$563
AbbVie2$33
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG1$19

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

$615 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$574,260
Medicare patients
1,331
Services billed
3,894

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
Prednisolone Acetate1,795$51,936
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl1,547$32,616
LumiganBimatoprost88$31,990
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod50$16,156
Ketorolac Tromethamine638$12,728
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol35$10,791
Latanoprost462$5,171
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat332$4,608
Timolol Maleate162$3,132
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol18$2,851
Travoprost19$2,622
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart12$2,423
TafluprostTafluprost/Pf15$2,020
Brimonidine Tartrate66$1,232
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha84$848

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
AbbVieLumigan, Combigan$33$42,781123 claims
AlconSimbrinza$563$2,42312 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 30th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.

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