Aditya Verma, MD
Retina Specialist · Louisville, KYNPI 1255054698
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 34 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,000 and has fallen 86.3% since, to $137 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for retina specialist clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $4,563.
Across 34 payments — averaging $49.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron$358
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$212
- Alcon$174
- Genentech USA, Inc.$150
- Genentech, Inc.$143
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$134
- plus $513 from 8 others
Across 8 payments — averaging $154.71 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.
- Regeneron$1K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,685100%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron | 4 | $358 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $212 |
| Alcon | 3 | $174 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 8 | $150 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $134 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 1 | $88 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $70 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Amgen | 1 | $18 |
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
$1,685 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 22 retina specialist providers in Kentucky.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 58 | $1,792 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 23 | $1,385 |
| Timolol Maleate | 14 | $301 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 21 | $202 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 18 | $77 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in Louisville
- Thomas StoneLouisville$79K
- John KitchensLexington$1.1M
- Blake IsernhagenLexington$183K
- Miguel BusquetsLexington$92K
- Romulo AlbuquerqueLexington$20K
- Leanne ClevengerLexington$17K
- Todd PurkissLexington$11K
- Belinda ShirkeyLexington$11K
- Ricky IsernhagenLexington$5K
- Aaron RiccaLexington$5K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.