Harshivinderjit Bains, MD
Ophthalmology · Tyler, TXNPI 1720199599
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,685 of the $5,559 with a category attached, or 66.3%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eyepoint US, Inc. at 44.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,067 and has fallen 54.4% since, to $1,398 in 2025.
Across 102 payments — averaging $54.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$2K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$799
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$462
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$421
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$315
- AbbVie$289
- plus $805 from 11 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $17,379 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$17K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,87434%
- Food & beverage$3,68566%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 7 | $2,468 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 20 | $799 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 14 | $462 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 12 | $421 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $315 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $289 |
| Regeneron | 2 | $182 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 8 | $164 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 9 | $157 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $82 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 4 | $63 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Novartis | 2 | $26 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $20 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 1 | $16 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$5,559 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ProlensaBromfenac Sodium | 79 | $26,309 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 176 | $8,246 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 49 | $7,654 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 18 | $3,925 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 342 | $3,808 |
| Cyclosporine | 13 | $3,194 |
| Difluprednate | 16 | $1,710 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 12 | $1,629 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 49 | $1,303 |
| Latanoprost | 125 | $1,234 |
| Travoprost | 11 | $834 |
| Timolol Maleate | 89 | $763 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 34 | $612 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 14 | $585 |
| Acetazolamide | 20 | $565 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Tyler
- Michael SingerSan Antonio$1.8M
- Oluwatosin SmithDallas$1.5M
- Charles WykoffBellaire$1.5M
- John MichelettiHouston$916K
- Davinder GroverDallas$705K
- Christina WengHouston$676K
- Peter ChangHouston$656K
- Zaina Al-MohtasebHouston$636K
- Ashkan AbbeyDallas$559K
- Stephen SladeHouston$530K
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.