Evan Gold, MD
Ophthalmology · Needham, MANPI 1760441034
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 91.9% of the total across 99 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Alcon accounts for 72.1% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,313 and has fallen 71.2% since, to $378 in 2025.
Across 99 payments — averaging $45.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$3K
- Beaver-visitec International, Inc.$350
- AbbVie$332
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$170
- Amgen$114
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$59
- plus $221 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3508%
- Travel & lodging$120%
- Food & beverage$4,09592%
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 | 57 | $3,212 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $350 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $332 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 9 | $170 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $114 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $44 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 2 | $41 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Novartis | 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
$4,457 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 81 | $102,817 |
| Cyclosporine | 37 | $24,718 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 42 | $19,808 |
| Latanoprost | 1,204 | $13,582 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 333 | $11,298 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 31 | $9,338 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 15 | $9,237 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 54 | $8,323 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 11 | $7,378 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 26 | $7,032 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 14 | $6,618 |
| Timolol Maleate | 196 | $4,744 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 159 | $4,013 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 12 | $3,044 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 229 | $2,740 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis, Combigan, Lumigan, Alphagan P | $332 | $125,805152 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan | $59 | $29,04557 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $3,212 | $3,04412 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 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.
Other ophthalmology in Needham
- Rishi SinghBoston$1.7M
- Peter ChangWaltham$992K
- Stephen AnesiWaltham$922K
- David LallySpringfield$328K
- Adam RogersBoston$316K
- Bonnie HendersonBoston$279K
- Mark LatinaReading$279K
- Dean EliottBoston$250K
- Jeremy KievalLexington$232K
- Mina FarahaniBoston$227K
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.