Christian Leal, MD
Ophthalmology · Austin, TXNPI 1730648551
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 22 payments — averaging $68.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$527
- Genentech USA, Inc.$170
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$166
- Regeneron$150
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$131
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$92
- plus $260 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$302%
- Food & beverage$1,46698%
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 | 9 | $527 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $170 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $166 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $150 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 1 | $92 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $81 |
| Stryker | 1 | $41 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
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
$1,496 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
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 | 112 | $6,014 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 22 | $587 |
| Timolol Maleate | 37 | $554 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 32 | $472 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 12 | $359 |
| Polymyxin B Sul-TrimethoprimPolymyxin B Sulf/Trimethoprim | 46 | $344 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 43 | $229 |
| Latanoprost | 35 | $205 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Austin
- Chirag JhaveriAustin$9.4M
- Robert WongAustin$6.6M
- Fuad MakkoukAustin$6.6M
- Shelley GhafooriAustin$2.9M
- Thomas WaltersAustin$2.4M
- Philip StoreyAustin$2.1M
- Saradha ChexalAustin$1.8M
- James DoonerAustin$556K
- Charles WykoffBellaire$73.4M
- David BrownHouston$51.7M
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.