James Sbarbaro, MD
Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Colorado Springs, CONPI 1972781805
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.6% of the total across 36 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 52.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $339 and has fallen 65.2% since, to $118 in 2025.
Across 36 payments — averaging $29.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$560
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$135
- Rxsight Inc$107
- Glaukos Corporation$91
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$53
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$48
- plus $81 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,06299%
- Entertainment$151%
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 | 19 | $560 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $135 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $107 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $91 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $29 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, 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.
How this compares
Too few cornea and external diseases specialist providers in Coloradoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 325 | $15,530 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 349 | $11,036 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 12 | $869 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 16 | $856 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 22 | $485 |
| Latanoprost | 43 | $463 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 18 | $231 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 15 | $211 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 13 | $203 |
| Timolol Maleate | 13 | $148 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 15 | $127 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cornea and external diseases specialist in Colorado Springs
- Clayton FalknorColorado Springs$1K
- Nitin ChopraColorado Springs$432
- Michael TaravellaAurora$12K
- Karen ChristopherAurora$3K
- Aimee VernerLongmont$3K
- Christopher GelstonAurora$2K
- Christopher HamptonWheat Ridge$1K
- Ronald WiseDenver$1K
- Michael WildesAurora$1K
- Brittany PerziaAurora$956
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.