Bilal Shaukat, MD
Retina Specialist · Pinellas Park, FLNPI 1154777886
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $47.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$914
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$654
- Genentech USA, Inc.$443
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$314
- Regeneron$274
- Notal Vision, Inc.$246
- plus $2K from 14 others
Across 37 payments — averaging $58.11 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.
- Notal Vision, Inc.$1K
- Regeneron$950
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,447100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 11 | $914 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 12 | $654 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 10 | $443 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $314 |
| Regeneron | 3 | $274 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 10 | $246 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $215 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 5 | $212 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $196 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 8 | $157 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $156 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $147 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 4 | $97 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Sandoz | 4 | $80 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $65 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
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
$4,447 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EyleaAflibercept | 635 | $1,407,331 |
| Eylea HdAflibercept | 138 | $443,731 |
| VabysmoFaricimab-Svoa | 62 | $155,535 |
| SyfovrePegcetacoplan/Pf | 50 | $119,921 |
| OzurdexDexamethasone | 31 | $43,781 |
| IzervayAvacincaptad Pegol Sodium/Pf | 13 | $27,300 |
| LucentisRanibizumab | 13 | $24,994 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 262 | $10,997 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 28 | $7,821 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 14 | $6,945 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 100 | $3,272 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 59 | $1,910 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 94 | $1,500 |
| Latanoprost | 79 | $836 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 34 | $635 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.Eylea, Eylea Hd | $654 | $1,851,062773 claims |
| Genentech USA, Inc.Vabysmo | $443 | $155,53562 claims |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Syfovre | $314 | $119,92150 claims |
| AbbVieOzurdex, Combigan, Lumigan | $215 | $58,54773 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncIzervay | $65 | $27,30013 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 45th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.
Other retina specialist in Pinellas Park
- Jason HandzaPinellas Park$1.3M
- Shailesh GuptaDeerfield Beach$18.8M
- Vrinda HershbergerMelbourne$8.2M
- Sunil GuptaPensacola$8.1M
- Stuart BurgessPlantation$4.6M
- Eduardo UchiyamaFt Lauderdale$4.1M
- Drew BawcombeDeerfield Beach$2M
- Dana DeupreeSpring Hill$1.5M
- Eric GuglielmoMerritt Island$1.5M
- Ashish SharmaFort Myers$994K
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.