RxDoctor Payments Data

Zev Shulkin, MD

Ophthalmology · Dallas, TXNPI 1457562530

Payments from drug & device makers

$36,105in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 100 payments — averaging $361.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$35K
  • Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC$159
  • Axogen$144
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$135
  • Merz North America, Inc.$99
  • Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC$75
  • plus $238 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8502%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$32,86691%
  • Travel & lodging$200%
  • Food & beverage$2,2696%
  • Education$1000%

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

$36,105 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$499,736
Medicare patients
1,004
Services billed
10,538

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
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate44$11,570
XiidraLifitegrast14$10,578
Brimonidine Tartrate98$8,258
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl255$5,693
ErythromycinErythromycin Base412$5,440
Cyclosporine16$5,013
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone88$3,159
Prednisolone Acetate106$2,939
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha117$1,273
Doxycycline Hyclate22$546
Latanoprost94$477
Methylprednisolone24$144
Clindamycin Hcl19$100
Tramadol Hcl19$45
Topiramate12$24

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
AbbVieAlphagan P$26$11,57044 claims
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra$20$10,57814 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 85th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.

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