Jason Handza, DO
Retina Specialist · Pinellas Park, FLNPI 1083603146
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 528 payments — averaging $2529.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron$688K
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$200K
- Kyowa Kirin, Inc.$191K
- Novartis$113K
- Bayer$91K
- Hexal AG$46K
- plus $6K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4048%
- Travel & lodging$83117%
- Food & beverage$3,66575%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron | 270 | $687,527 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 34 | $200,342 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 55 | $191,440 |
| Novartis | 15 | $112,876 |
| Bayer | 12 | $90,859 |
| Hexal AG | 7 | $46,208 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH | 28 | $2,508 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 25 | $744 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 15 | $609 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 20 | $579 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 18 | $449 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 2 | $422 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $391 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $184 |
| Alcon | 1 | $139 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 4 | $99 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $93 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $75 |
| Sandoz | 3 | $60 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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
$1,335,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EyleaAflibercept | 337 | $737,264 |
| Eylea HdAflibercept | 239 | $698,113 |
| VabysmoFaricimab-Svoa | 78 | $180,701 |
| IzervayAvacincaptad Pegol Sodium/Pf | 41 | $117,499 |
| SyfovrePegcetacoplan/Pf | 33 | $117,236 |
| LucentisRanibizumab | 26 | $62,564 |
| OzurdexDexamethasone | 15 | $21,998 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 49 | $1,862 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 15 | $823 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 11 | $295 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 18 | $221 |
| Latanoprost | 17 | $161 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.Eylea, Eylea Hd | $609 | $1,435,377576 claims |
| Genentech USA, Inc.Vabysmo | $449 | $180,70178 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncIzervay | $184 | $117,49941 claims |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Syfovre | $200,342 | $117,23633 claims |
| AbbVieOzurdex | $744 | $21,99815 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 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.
Other retina specialist in Pinellas Park
- Shailesh GuptaDeerfield Beach$18.8M
- Vrinda HershbergerMelbourne$8.2M
- Sunil GuptaPensacola$8.1M
- Stuart BurgessPlantation$4.6M
- Eduardo UchiyamaFt Lauderdale$4.1M
- Drew BawcombeDeerfield Beach$2M
- Dana DeupreeSpring Hill$1.5M
- Eric GuglielmoMerritt Island$1.5M
- Ashish SharmaFort Myers$994K
- Joseph WalkerFt Myers$615K
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.