RxDoctor Payments Data

Wyche Coleman

Ophthalmology · Shreveport, LANPI 1841491826

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $26,950 of the $35,104 with a category attached, or 76.8%. Alcon Research LLC accounts for 64.0% of it on its own, with 24 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $17,457 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $6,182 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$35,104in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 233 payments — averaging $150.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon Research LLC$22K
  • Alcon$8K
  • Glaukos Corporation$808
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$623
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$506
  • Ivantis, Inc$353
  • plus $2K from 19 others
$94,887in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 165 payments — averaging $575.07 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Alcon Research LLC$88K
  • Glaukos Corporation$7K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$26,95077%
  • Travel & lodging$5201%
  • Food & beverage$7,59822%
  • Gifts$360%

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

$35,104 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 286 ophthalmology providers in Louisiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$406,802
Medicare patients
758
Services billed
2,321

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
RestasisCyclosporine23$23,799
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol30$9,893
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol50$9,067
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod13$7,068
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart20$5,025
Prednisolone Acetate124$3,929
Latanoprost324$3,698
Brimonidine Tartrate148$2,286
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat149$2,217
Ketorolac Tromethamine103$2,050
Timolol Maleate184$1,243
Dorzolamide Hcl62$1,216
Acetazolamide24$758
Pantoprazole Sodium36$303
Atorvastatin Calcium29$296

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$290$33,69253 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta$100$7,06813 claims
AlconSimbrinza$8,467$5,02520 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 95th percentile of 286 ophthalmology providers in Louisiana.

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