Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Douglas Buxton

Ophthalmology New York, NY Medical Doctor

NPI 1013095272 CMS profile 449045

310 E 14Th Street, Room 403, New York, NY 10003

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General payments

$51,185

838 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Douglas Buxton of New York, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $51,185 across 838 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 95th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $4,076 138
2024 General $2,908 113
2023 General $7,949 119
2022 General $5,187 124
2021 General $5,661 120
2020 General $3,272 89
2019 General $22,130 135

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Douglas Buxton
  • Ophthalmology median
  • Middle half of Ophthalmology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Douglas Buxton were reported at $4,076. Among 13,034 Ophthalmology profiles paid that year, the median was $384 and the middle half received between $136 and $917.

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Year Douglas Buxton Ophthalmology median Middle half National median
2019 $22,130 $258 $104–$655 $163
2020 $3,272 $126 $45–$321 $114
2021 $5,661 $205 $76–$534 $132
2022 $5,187 $266 $100–$678 $149
2023 $7,949 $308 $117–$745 $160
2024 $2,908 $340 $127–$846 $164
2025 $4,076 $384 $136–$917 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC $18,087 28 payments
  2. Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. $5,415 22 payments
  3. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $5,322 129 payments
  4. Alcon Vision LLC $3,977 51 payments
  5. Glaukos Corporation $1,590 11 payments
  6. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $1,568 78 payments
  7. Sight Sciences, Inc. $1,467 28 payments
  8. Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. $1,382 27 payments
  9. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $1,196 52 payments
  10. Allergan Inc. $991 56 payments
  11. Other $10,188 356 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $23,179 817 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $14,000 3 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $4,775 3 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $4,443 2 payments
  5. Travel and Lodging $3,330 5 payments
  6. Honoraria $1,000 1 payment
  7. Education $438 6 payments
  8. Gift $19 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. ACTHAR Autoimmune And Rare Disease $18,087 28 payments
  2. DEXTENZA $5,415 22 payments
  3. ACTHAR Immunology $5,322 129 payments
  4. Cequa $1,472 73 payments
  5. VYZULTA $1,193 47 payments
  6. iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System $1,000 1 payment
  7. XDEMVY $967 28 payments
  8. OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US) $787 9 payments
  9. XIIDRA $772 19 payments
  10. INVELTYS $748 33 payments
  11. Other $17,824 670 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 54 drugs

Part D claims

3,227

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$1,118,708

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

65.8%

Median for Ophthalmology: 29.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Restasis Cyclosporine Brand 326 $333,526
Lumigan Bimatoprost Brand 246 $129,181
Cequa Cyclosporine Brand 132 $116,695
Xiidra Lifitegrast Brand 90 $95,161
Vyzulta Latanoprostene Bunod Brand 142 $54,639
Tyrvaya Varenicline Tartrate Brand 65 $44,940
Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 94 $37,565
Miebo Perfluorohexyloctane/Pf Brand 39 $30,039
Rocklatan Netarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost Brand 55 $27,119
Rhopressa Netarsudil Mesylate Brand 39 $20,280

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 54 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,260 Part D prescribers listed as Ophthalmology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 51 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$139,374

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

480

Average age 77

Services billed

1,840

307 women, 173 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 70%
Arthritis 50%
Diabetes 29%
Ischemic heart disease 26%
Osteoporosis 26%
Cancer 20%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Chronic kidney disease 17%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 18 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ACTHAR
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $571
$571 — —
TYRVAYA
  • Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. $271
$271 65 —
XDEMVY
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $231
$231 — —
MIEBO
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $202
$202 39 —
Cequa
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $201
$201 132 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

838 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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