Allen Zieker
Ophthalmology · Albany, NYNPI 1518944495
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 136 payments — averaging $60.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$3K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Alcon$1K
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$604
- Ivantis, Inc$581
- Novartis$283
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,60031%
- Travel & lodging$2703%
- Food & beverage$5,40965%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $2,941 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 22 | $1,359 |
| Alcon | 37 | $1,339 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 16 | $604 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 11 | $581 |
| Novartis | 6 | $283 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 6 | $201 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $163 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $109 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $88 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $70 |
| Halozyme Inc | 4 | $64 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $34 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 2 | $30 |
| Omeros Corporation | 2 | $28 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- DEXTENZA$1,143
- STELLARIS$485
- enVista MX60 IOL$478
- ReSure Sealant$381
- ENVISTA$276
- ENVISTA TORIC$270
- AMVISC PLUS$143
- Clareon$143
- Centurion$130
- AcrySof$115
- XIIDRA$107
- ACTHAR$106
- Hydrus$105
How this compares
$8,279 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
Other ophthalmology in Albany
- Jeffrey SternAlbany$772K
- Robert FeldmanAlbany$150K
- Douglas JabsNew York$24.3M
- David RubaltelliBrooklyn$8.9M
- Philip FerroneGreat Neck$5.8M
- Eric DonnenfeldGarden City$2.6M
- Nathan RadcliffeNew York$2.4M
- Glenn StollerRockville Centre$2.1M
- Richard SpaideNew York$1.7M
- Paul HartmanRochester$1.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.