Farhan Irshad, MD
Ophthalmology · Austin, TXNPI 1871775650
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 468 payments — averaging $289.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$38K
- Rxsight Inc$32K
- Shire North American Group Inc$11K
- Alcon$11K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$10K
- AbbVie$8K
- plus $25K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,95923%
- Speaking & faculty fees$57,11051%
- Travel & lodging$13,40412%
- Food & beverage$14,12813%
- Education$1610%
- Gifts$390%
- Other$6361%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 72 | $38,115 |
| Rxsight Inc | 23 | $31,543 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 32 | $11,490 |
| Alcon | 83 | $11,131 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 22 | $9,530 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 72 | $8,225 |
| Novartis | 32 | $5,216 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 19 | $4,156 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 8 | $3,891 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $3,514 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 5 | $2,214 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 9 | $1,642 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 16 | $1,614 |
| Omeros Corporation | 3 | $1,288 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 17 | $426 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 6 | $198 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $196 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $181 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 3 | $168 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $133 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $70 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| Amgen | 2 | $38 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Tearlab Corp | 1 | $22 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $15 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- XIIDRA$50,915
- MIEBO$35,222
- VYZULTA$8,987
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$6,879
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$6,879
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$6,879
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$6,879
- XEN$6,599
- LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$6,300
- Tecnis Symfony IOL$3,438
- TYRVAYA$3,240
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$2,190
- ARTEVO 800$1,414
- ARGOS$1,339
- OMIDRIA$1,269
- CIRRUS HD-OCT$859
- IOLMaster 700$859
- VisuMax$859
- QUATERA 700$859
- Clareon$707
How this compares
$135,437 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 67 | $88,355 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 38 | $69,701 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 61 | $31,609 |
| Cyclosporine | 36 | $26,820 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 13 | $8,067 |
| TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate | 12 | $6,999 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 107 | $5,811 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 29 | $5,025 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 11 | $4,991 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 17 | $4,555 |
| Brinzolamide | 12 | $3,156 |
| Travoprost | 12 | $2,776 |
| Latanoprost | 213 | $2,686 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 71 | $1,720 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 44 | $1,421 |
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, Lumigan, Combigan | $8,225 | $124,954139 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta | $38,115 | $77,76851 claims |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya | $3,514 | $6,99912 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $11,131 | $4,55517 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 90th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
Other ophthalmology in Austin
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- 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.