Kyle Varvel, MD
Ophthalmology · Bryan, TXNPI 1730316076
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 226 payments — averaging $34.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Glaukos Corporation$1K
- Alcon$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$789
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$767
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$540
- Rxsight Inc$470
- plus $2K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$260%
- Food & beverage$7,721100%
- Education$30%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Glaukos Corporation | 17 | $1,442 |
| Alcon | 34 | $1,371 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 21 | $789 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 15 | $767 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 29 | $540 |
| Rxsight Inc | 16 | $470 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 17 | $425 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 14 | $312 |
| Lensar, Inc. | 3 | $216 |
| Novartis | 10 | $193 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 7 | $186 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $146 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $120 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $114 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 4 | $111 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $98 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $91 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $88 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $69 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $67 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Omeros Corporation | 1 | $19 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- KXL System$863
- Photrexa$661
- iStent inject W$448
- enVista MX60 IOL$240
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$223
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$223
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$223
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$223
- RXSIGHT LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (RXLAL)$223
- iStent Inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass System$202
- LENSAR LASER SYSTEM$170
- IACCESS$168
- AcrySof$142
- iStent Infinite$137
- iDoseTR$137
- XIIDRA$122
- STELLARIS$117
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$112
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$112
- Clareon$110
How this compares
$7,749 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
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 | 80 | $100,531 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 33 | $54,843 |
| Cyclosporine | 47 | $27,745 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 39 | $16,927 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 29 | $13,373 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 35 | $10,353 |
| Travoprost | 37 | $6,736 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 36 | $6,561 |
| Latanoprost | 452 | $6,489 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 203 | $6,039 |
| ProlensaBromfenac Sodium | 17 | $5,623 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 220 | $4,387 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 26 | $3,143 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 13 | $2,340 |
| Timolol Maleate | 96 | $1,102 |
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 | $312 | $127,811154 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta | $789 | $68,21762 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa | $120 | $5,62317 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $1,371 | $2,34013 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 75th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
Other ophthalmology in Bryan
- Charles WykoffBellaire$73.4M
- David BrownHouston$51.7M
- Sunil PatelAbilene$11.1M
- Chirag JhaveriAustin$9.4M
- Robert WongAustin$6.6M
- Fuad MakkoukAustin$6.6M
- Patrick WilliamsArlington$6.6M
- Ashkan AbbeyDallas$5.7M
- Karl CsakyDallas$4.9M
- Michael SingerSan Antonio$4.2M
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.