Has Asit Pruthi, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,873 in general payments to Asit Pruthi, MD across 17 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Asit Pruthi, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Asit Pruthi, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Asit Pruthi, MD

Ophthalmology · Salinas, CANPI 1770580375

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,873in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 17 payments — averaging $110.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Rxsight Inc$1K
Alcon$313
Glaukos Corporation$146
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$37
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$17
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$17
plus $14 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1,00053%
Food & beverage$87347%

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
Rxsight Inc	8	$1,329
Alcon	3	$313
Glaukos Corporation	1	$146
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	2	$37
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$17
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	1	$17
Omeros Corporation	1	$14

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.

RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$1,123
RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$1,123
RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$1,123
LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$1,123
RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$1,123
iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$146
iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$146
Clareon$143

How this compares

$1,873 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$319,456

Medicare patients

920

Services billed

2,692

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
RestasisCyclosporine	28	$32,205
Bromfenac Sodium	131	$15,781
Cyclosporine	20	$11,126
Prednisolone Acetate	169	$9,823
TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone	30	$7,730
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium	14	$4,878
Latanoprost	164	$2,250
Timolol Maleate	36	$597
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	41	$554
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	13	$145
Carteolol Hcl	17	$137

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Daniel SchwartzSan Francisco$8M
Nikolas Londonla Jolla$6.1M
Michael BerlinWest Hollywood$5.7M
Steven JacobsonLos Angeles$4.7M
Peter WinArcadia$4.2M

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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.

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