Meir Baalhaness, MD
Retina Specialist · Deerfield Beach, FLNPI 1114001427
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 41 payments — averaging $25.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$406
- AbbVie$187
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$117
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$89
- Novartis$77
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$75
- plus $97 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,048100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 14 | $406 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $187 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $117 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
| Novartis | 5 | $77 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $75 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,048 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EyleaAflibercept | 276 | $648,526 |
| SyfovrePegcetacoplan/Pf | 12 | $32,665 |
| AvastinBevacizumab | 18 | $19,428 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 49 | $14,888 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 180 | $10,488 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 25 | $9,906 |
| IlevroNepafenac | 23 | $8,347 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 16 | $6,653 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 30 | $6,356 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 213 | $5,827 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 97 | $3,171 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 12 | $2,741 |
| Latanoprost | 330 | $1,994 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 32 | $1,646 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 55 | $1,126 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.Eylea | $117 | $648,526276 claims |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Syfovre | $30 | $32,66512 claims |
| AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P | $187 | $17,62961 claims |
| NovartisIlevro | $77 | $8,34723 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 20th percentile of 118 retina specialist providers in Florida.
Other retina specialist in Deerfield Beach
- Shailesh GuptaDeerfield Beach$18.8M
- Drew BawcombeDeerfield Beach$2M
- Vrinda HershbergerMelbourne$8.2M
- Sunil GuptaPensacola$8.1M
- Stuart BurgessPlantation$4.6M
- Eduardo UchiyamaFt Lauderdale$4.1M
- Dana DeupreeSpring Hill$1.5M
- Eric GuglielmoMerritt Island$1.5M
- Jason HandzaPinellas Park$1.3M
- Ashish SharmaFort Myers$994K
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.