Medical Doctor Program year 2022 Reported 2019–2022 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Howard Bruckner

Ophthalmology Augusta, GA Medical Doctor

NPI 1922289057 CMS profile 41801

909 15Th St, Augusta, GA 30901

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General payments

$1,928

42 records reported · program years 2019–2022

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2022

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2022, Howard Bruckner of Augusta, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,928 across 42 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 58th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

4 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2022 General $248 3
2021 General $791 13
2020 General $191 9
2019 General $698 17

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Howard Bruckner were reported at $0. 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 Howard Bruckner Ophthalmology median Middle half National median
2019 $698 $258 $104–$655 $163
2020 $191 $126 $45–$321 $114
2021 $791 $205 $76–$534 $132
2022 $248 $266 $100–$678 $149
2023 $0 $308 $117–$745 $160
2024 $0 $340 $127–$846 $164
2025 $0 $384 $136–$917 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2022
  1. Allergan Inc. $553 10 payments
  2. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $293 4 payments
  3. Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $192 7 payments
  4. EyePoint Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. $173 2 payments
  5. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $149 10 payments
  6. Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $131 3 payments
  7. Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC $124 1 payment
  8. Hoffmann-La Roche Limited $112 1 payment
  9. Genentech, Inc. $105 1 payment
  10. Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. $64 1 payment
  11. Other $33 2 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2022
  1. Food and Beverage $1,843 40 payments
  2. Gift $45 1 payment
  3. Education $40 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2022
  1. rhopressa $200 7 payments
  2. rocklatan $200 7 payments
  3. XEN $163 2 payments
  4. LOTEMAX SM $150 1 payment
  5. VYZULTA $143 3 payments
  6. BromSite $141 8 payments
  7. COMBIGAN $140 1 payment
  8. INVELTYS $131 3 payments
  9. Flarex $124 1 payment
  10. DEXYCU $116 1 payment
  11. Other $981 22 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 · 11 drugs

Part D claims

547

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$103,868

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

55%

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
Lumigan Bimatoprost Brand 113 $43,853
Rocklatan Netarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost Brand 66 $27,004
Rhopressa Netarsudil Mesylate Brand 25 $12,363
Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 28 $10,807
Pilocarpine Hcl Generic 43 $3,813
Brimonidine Tartrate-Timolol Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 11 $1,734
Dorzolamide-Timolol Dorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat Brand 58 $1,162
Brimonidine Tartrate Generic 19 $1,149
Latanoprost Generic 123 $940
Dorzolamide Hcl Generic 30 $814

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 11 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.

Records

42 reported

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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 2022

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

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