Joann Kang, MD
Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Bronx, NYNPI 1104054139
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.5%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Sanofi accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,910 and has fallen 95.3% since, to $278 in 2025. Among cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 42 payments — averaging $339.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi$11K
- Alcon$768
- Glaukos Corporation$630
- Dompe US, Inc.$399
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$372
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$361
- plus $703 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6,76847%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,25030%
- Food & beverage$3,23323%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi | 4 | $11,018 |
| Alcon | 9 | $768 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $630 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 6 | $399 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $372 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $361 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $242 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $174 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $133 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $45 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Amgen | 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.
- Tecnis IOL$371
- enVista MX60 IOL$361
- iStent inject W$330
- Hydrus Microstent$283
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$255
- Kahook Dual Blade$242
- Streamline Surgical System$242
- Ahmed Glaucoma Valve$242
- Oxervate$229
- IACCESS$206
- iDose$158
- Clareon$153
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY$149
- Tecnis Simplicity$124
- KXL System$123
- Photrexa$123
- AcrySof$111
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY IOL$108
How this compares
$14,251 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 26 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 989 | $658,023 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 123 | $96,202 |
| Cyclosporine | 244 | $81,997 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 1,425 | $77,213 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 64 | $28,372 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 70 | $22,698 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 87 | $19,739 |
| TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate | 28 | $17,731 |
| Latanoprost | 1,687 | $11,032 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 607 | $9,706 |
| Ofloxacin | 569 | $7,359 |
| Bepotastine Besilate | 15 | $4,885 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 21 | $4,852 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 302 | $4,218 |
| Fluorometholone | 36 | $2,621 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan, Combigan | $45 | $706,1351,140 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra | $361 | $96,202123 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $768 | $4,85221 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 95th percentile of 26 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in New York.
Other cornea and external diseases specialist in Bronx
- Viral JuthaniBronx$1K
- Christopher StarrNew York$294K
- Sahas NarainRockville Ctr$6K
- Jessica CiralskyNew York$6K
- Nadia HaqqieNew York$6K
- Adam ChubakPoughkeepsie$5K
- Sirikishan ShettyNew York$3K
- Arthur ColiSyracuse$3K
- Alexandra HerzlichNew York$3K
- Laura PalazzoloHuntington Station$2K
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.