Charles Cole, MD
Ophthalmology · New York, NYNPI 1447302690
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 198 payments — averaging $33.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Alcon$2K
- Glaukos Corporation$573
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$251
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$249
- Dompe US, Inc.$182
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$71411%
- Food & beverage$5,85089%
- Gifts$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 92 | $2,041 |
| Alcon | 25 | $2,019 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 8 | $573 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 15 | $251 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 11 | $249 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 8 | $182 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $181 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $166 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $138 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $129 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $119 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $116 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 2 | $88 |
| Novartis | 2 | $34 |
| Omeros Corporation | 2 | $33 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $23 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 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.
- Centurion$394
- VUITY$295
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$267
- Radius XR$256
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY$149
- IACCESS$146
- iStent inject W$146
- Luxor$145
- ACTIVEFOCUS$144
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$140
- Unity$139
- Tecnis IOL$138
- EYLEA$125
- ILUX$106
How this compares
$6,584 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 137 | $57,250 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 107 | $40,332 |
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 39 | $38,330 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 86 | $38,142 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 49 | $32,711 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 73 | $22,175 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 49 | $18,405 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 18 | $15,500 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 66 | $9,957 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 147 | $9,155 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 135 | $7,329 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 18 | $7,218 |
| Latanoprost | 547 | $4,456 |
| Brinzolamide | 25 | $4,231 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 218 | $3,775 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P, Restasis, Combigan | $2,041 | $150,277345 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo, Vyzulta, Xiidra | $166 | $72,235106 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan | $32 | $47,550125 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 80th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
Other ophthalmology in New York
- Douglas JabsNew York$24.3M
- Nathan RadcliffeNew York$2.4M
- Richard SpaideNew York$1.7M
- Jason SlakterNew York$1.2M
- David ChuNew York$1.2M
- Sharon KehNew York$941K
- Joshua YoungNew York$814K
- Joseph PanarelliNew York$704K
- Joshua KimNew York$677K
- Eric RosenbergNew York$526K
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.