Larry Puthenparambil, MD
Retina Specialist · Pearland, TXNPI 1679718506
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (44.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alimera Sciences, Inc. accounts for 63.3% of it on its own, with 27 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $9,763 and has fallen 90.4% since, to $940 in 2025.
Across 154 payments — averaging $107.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$10K
- AbbVie$3K
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$288
- ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$234
- Novartis$232
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$217
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,99512%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,43545%
- Travel & lodging$2,28314%
- Food & beverage$4,83429%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 24 | $10,472 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 51 | $3,389 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 3 | $288 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $234 |
| Novartis | 14 | $232 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $217 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 7 | $210 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 1 | $183 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 8 | $181 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $172 |
| Alcon | 1 | $139 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $101 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 3 | $60 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Lumenis, Inc | 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.
How this compares
$16,547 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 108 retina specialist 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 | 14 | $17,563 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 42 | $1,748 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 30 | $760 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 30 | $548 |
| Latanoprost | 76 | $461 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 20 | $210 |
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 | $3,389 | $17,56314 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 85th percentile of 108 retina specialist providers in Texas.
Other retina specialist in Pearland
- Courtney CrawfordBurleson$342K
- Jeremiah BrownSchertz$339K
- Victor GonzalezMcAllen$335K
- Judy KimDallas$256K
- Emmanuel ChangBellaire$254K
- Ting Fang SuarezBellaire$156K
- Hemang PandyaPlano$153K
- Margaret RunnerSouthlake$71K
- Moises ChicaSan Antonio$43K
- Garvin DavisHouston$38K
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.