Hudson Stern, MD
Retina Specialist · Elmhurst, ILNPI 1285085373
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 91 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 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 91 payments — averaging $57.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$858
- AbbVie$628
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$611
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$597
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$551
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$427
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,196100%
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 | 9 | $858 |
| AbbVie | 15 | $628 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 11 | $611 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $597 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $551 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $427 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 5 | $404 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $336 |
| Novartis | 3 | $156 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $113 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $92 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Iridex Corporation | 1 | $41 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $31 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $22 |
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.
- NGENUITY$369
- Iluvien$290
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$286
- EYLEA HD$223
- STELLARIS PC$161
- Constellation$141
- AcrySof$136
- VABYSMO$130
- OZURDEX$125
- LOTEMAX SM$117
- ENVISTA$113
- YUTIQ$113
- EYLEA$109
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass System Model iS3$108
- OMNI$101
How this compares
$5,196 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 70 retina specialist providers in Illinois.
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 | 115 | $4,899 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 12 | $1,701 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 13 | $1,572 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 66 | $1,293 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 18 | $781 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 41 | $706 |
| Latanoprost | 41 | $417 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 31 | $369 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 16 | $233 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 13 | $157 |
| Timolol Maleate | 12 | $149 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in Elmhurst
- Aaron WeinbergElmhurst$5K
- Kenneth ResnickElmhurst$1K
- Mathew MaccumberHarvey$219K
- Rahul KomatiChicago$143K
- Kourous RezaeiHarvey$126K
- Kirk PackoHarvey$86K
- David OrthHarvey$70K
- Veena RaijiChicago$69K
- John PollackJoliet$68K
- Timothy FloodHarvey$57K
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.