Joseph Berg, MD
Ophthalmology · Albany, GANPI 1962498204
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $21.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$768
- AbbVie$280
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$238
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$178
- Novartis$173
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$145
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,77297%
- Entertainment$993%
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 | 28 | $768 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $280 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $238 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $178 |
| Novartis | 9 | $173 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $145 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 5 | $139 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $130 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 7 | $108 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 4 | $94 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $89 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 2 | $59 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $34 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Omeros Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Amgen | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Clareon$145
How this compares
$2,871 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 481 ophthalmology providers in Georgia.
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 | 64 | $46,823 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 66 | $27,302 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 39 | $16,624 |
| Cyclosporine | 35 | $12,965 |
| Travoprost | 31 | $7,290 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 152 | $6,612 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 22 | $6,022 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 28 | $5,949 |
| Latanoprost | 529 | $5,627 |
| Fluorometholone | 67 | $4,858 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 19 | $3,876 |
| Cevimeline Hcl | 22 | $3,496 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 179 | $3,207 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 76 | $3,078 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 17 | $2,150 |
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, Alphagan P, Combigan | $280 | $75,418153 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa | $178 | $27,30266 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $768 | $3,87619 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 55th percentile of 481 ophthalmology providers in Georgia.
Other ophthalmology in Albany
- El-Roy DixonAlbany$48K
- Dennis MarcusAugusta$9.2M
- Robert StoltzMarietta$3.9M
- Eugene McLaurinSavannah$3.3M
- Clayton BlehmGainesville$1.7M
- Lakshmana KooragayalaMarietta$1.4M
- Douglas DayAtlanta$1.1M
- Jennifer KimMorrow$989K
- Thomas AabergAtlanta$959K
- Gagan SawhneyAtlanta$874K
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.