Alexander Barash
Ophthalmology · New York, NYNPI 1891052338
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.6%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alimera Sciences, Inc. at 35.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,972 and has fallen 91.4% since, to $515 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 46 payments — averaging $321.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$5K
- Novartis$3K
- AbbVie$3K
- Alcon$778
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$616
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$248
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,44944%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00034%
- Travel & lodging$3602%
- Food & beverage$2,98720%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 6 | $5,297 |
| Novartis | 3 | $3,417 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $3,349 |
| Alcon | 4 | $778 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 10 | $616 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $248 |
| Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $220 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 6 | $211 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc. | 1 | $192 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $185 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 1 | $42 |
| Amgen | 2 | $41 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Iluvien$5,254
- OZURDEX$3,249
- BEOVU$3,200
- DAILIES$360
- Clareon$294
- Tecnis IOL$200
- ACTHAR$144
- EYLEA HD$125
- YUTIQ$125
- EYLEA$123
- STELLARIS$106
- Laser Probes$106
- VERITAS Vision System$100
- Tecnis Simplicity$100
How this compares
$14,795 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
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 | 41 | $1,215 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 17 | $433 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 15 | $222 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 17 | $206 |
| Latanoprost | 14 | $140 |
| Ofloxacin | 11 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in New York
- Nathan RadcliffeNew York$2.1M
- Richard SpaideNew York$1.7M
- Joshua YoungNew York$814K
- Joseph PanarelliNew York$541K
- Eric RosenbergNew York$434K
- Michael CooneyNew York$398K
- David GuyerNew York$322K
- Ashley BrissetteNew York$315K
- Jason SlakterNew York$272K
- David ChuNew York$234K
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.