Howard Kornstein, MD
Ophthalmology · White Plains, NYNPI 1205808524
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 112 payments — averaging $59.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Alcon$1K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$627
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$598
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$492
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$406
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,54598%
- Education$1132%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 41 | $1,299 |
| Alcon | 10 | $1,028 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 11 | $627 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $598 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $492 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $406 |
| Rxsight Inc | 3 | $282 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $257 |
| Omeros Corporation | 2 | $250 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $242 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 2 | $232 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $193 |
| Novartis | 3 | $155 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $142 |
| Amgen | 1 | $124 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $96 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- enVista MX60 IOL$750
- Rhopressa$513
- Rocklatan$513
- CEQUA$497
- Clareon$389
- LUMIGAN$251
- OMIDRIA$250
- OMNI$237
- DEXYCU$232
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$156
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$156
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$156
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$156
- RXSIGHT LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (RXLAL)$156
- Centurion$150
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$147
- Clareon PanOptix Pro$146
- TRYPTYR$141
- Tecnis IOL$134
- XELPROS$125
How this compares
$6,658 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 96 | $69,879 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 37 | $53,421 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 20 | $14,104 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 36 | $11,588 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 48 | $9,877 |
| Travoprost | 33 | $5,559 |
| Acetazolamide | 145 | $5,487 |
| Cyclosporine | 14 | $5,143 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 109 | $4,742 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 16 | $3,332 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf | 14 | $2,836 |
| Latanoprost | 226 | $2,587 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 37 | $2,375 |
| Pilocarpine Hcl | 17 | $1,827 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 93 | $1,658 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Combigan | $1,299 | $134,889169 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan | $406 | $14,10420 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $1,028 | $3,33216 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 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
Other ophthalmology in White Plains
- Douglas JabsNew York$24.3M
- David RubaltelliBrooklyn$8.9M
- Philip FerroneGreat Neck$5.8M
- Eric DonnenfeldGarden City$2.6M
- Nathan RadcliffeNew York$2.4M
- Glenn StollerRockville Centre$2.1M
- Richard SpaideNew York$1.7M
- Paul HartmanRochester$1.6M
- Jason SlakterNew York$1.2M
- David ChuNew York$1.2M
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.