Erol Verter, MD
Ophthalmology · Norwalk, CTNPI 1548610454
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.4% of the total across 162 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 26 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,848 and has fallen 65.2% since, to $643 in 2025.
Across 162 payments — averaging $33.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$905
- AbbVie$642
- Coherus Oncology, Inc.$329
- Genentech USA, Inc.$324
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$303
- plus $2K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,35398%
- Education$892%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 30 | $1,133 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 27 | $905 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $642 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 7 | $329 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 18 | $324 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 17 | $303 |
| Sandoz | 5 | $280 |
| Alcon | 6 | $266 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $264 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $236 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $100 |
| Novartis | 1 | $100 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $89 |
| Halozyme Inc | 2 | $50 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 1 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $21 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Omeros Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, 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.
How this compares
$5,442 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 279 ophthalmology providers in Connecticut.
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 | 164 | $6,950 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 103 | $2,288 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 85 | $1,720 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 48 | $1,419 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 11 | $491 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 47 | $380 |
| Timolol Maleate | 35 | $320 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 14 | $316 |
| Ofloxacin | 17 | $207 |
| Prednisone | 21 | $116 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 15 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Norwalk
- Scott SpectorNorwalk$23K
- Ding MaNorwalk$5K
- Jay FleischmanNorwalk$3K
- John HuangHartford$267K
- Amir CohenNew Haven$266K
- James MurphyHamden$176K
- James TalbotNew Canaan$47K
- Paul KangNew Haven$40K
- Anish ShahNorwich$38K
- Michael KovalFarmington$35K
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.