John Galasso, MD
Retina Specialist · Des Plaines, ILNPI 1588600647
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 6 payments — averaging $27.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$64
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$37
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$30
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$21
- Novartis$15
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$167100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $64 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Novartis | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$167 in reported general payments places this provider in the 5th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 22 | $4,372 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 50 | $1,442 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 23 | $1,298 |
| Timolol Maleate | 24 | $339 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 15 | $333 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 14 | $273 |
| Latanoprost | 14 | $104 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in Des Plaines
- Bryan KimDes Plaines$8K
- Kyle BlairDes Plaines$5K
- Saira KhannaDes Plaines$5K
- Anand GopalDes Plaines$2K
- George WyhinnyDes Plaines$2K
- Enrique Garcia-ValenzuelaDes Plaines$2K
- Daniel AlterDes Plaines$2K
- Michael BlairDes Plaines$927
- Robert GaroonDes Plaines$515
- Mathew MaccumberHarvey$1.7M
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.