Elizabeth Shen, MD
Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Irvine, CANPI 1396124889
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (57.1%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 32 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 41.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,388, more than ten times the $458 reported in 2019.
Across 139 payments — averaging $80.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$5K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$872
- Alcon$678
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$329
- Amgen$297
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,37557%
- Travel & lodging$4004%
- Food & beverage$4,38139%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 7 | $4,678 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $2,077 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 12 | $872 |
| Alcon | 22 | $678 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 9 | $329 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 15 | $297 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 10 | $261 |
| Novartis | 6 | $220 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 6 | $215 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $201 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 2 | $143 |
| Immunogen, Inc. | 1 | $136 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 6 | $126 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $116 |
| Nova Eye, Inc. | 2 | $113 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Rxsight Inc | 4 | $66 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $31 |
| Tearlab Corp | 2 | $29 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- TIVDAK$4,625
- enVista Aspire IOL$491
- TENEO$491
- STELLARIS ELITE$491
- MIEBO$245
- XIIDRA$237
- Elahere$136
- enVista MX60 IOL$121
- Syfovre$121
- MiSight Contact Lens$120
- AcrySof$119
- Tecnis IOL$111
How this compares
$11,156 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 50 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| XiidraLifitegrast | 26 | $35,627 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 23 | $925 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 12 | $499 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 46 | $453 |
| Ofloxacin | 16 | $220 |
| Latanoprost | 28 | $136 |
| Timolol Maleate | 14 | $85 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra | $872 | $35,62726 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 65th percentile of 50 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in California.
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- Jimmy LeeIrvine$17K
- Rakhi MelvaniIrvine$10K
- Jillian ChongBeverly Hills$113K
- Tyson KimSan Francisco$91K
- Edward MancheStanford$78K
- Michael SavetskyCulver City$63K
- Michael SaidelSonoma$51K
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.