Michael Gordon, MD
Ophthalmology · San Diego, CANPI 1851489355
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $85,000 of the $103,482 with a category attached, or 82.1%. Alcon accounts for 61.2% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $38,647 and has fallen 94.3% since, to $2,189 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 208 payments — averaging $497.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$63K
- Alcon Research LLC$37K
- Glaukos Corporation$1K
- Avedro Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$247
- Johnson & Johnson$227
- plus $1K from 15 others
Across 558 payments — averaging $854.62 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Alcon Research LLC$412K
- Novartis$65K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$85,00082%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7001%
- Travel & lodging$10,39810%
- Food & beverage$7,3847%
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 | 128 | $63,313 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 8 | $36,594 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 10 | $1,010 |
| Avedro Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 15 | $247 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $227 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 6 | $170 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $148 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $113 |
| Novartis | 5 | $95 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $84 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $65 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $63 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $61 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Wavelight Refractive Suite$54,347
- Wavelight$11,378
- WaveLight EX500 Excimer Laser$1,685
- NGENUITY$1,050
- Clareon$644
- KXL System$508
- iDoseTR$400
- iStent Infinite$400
- CE-marked KXLA system$300
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$148
- SION SURGICAL INSTRUMENT$148
- ARGOS$141
- Hydrus Microstent$141
- Centurion$131
- Clareon PanOptix Pro$121
- Unity$114
- Photrexa$108
How this compares
$103,482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,513 ophthalmology providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 45 | $1,114 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 44 | $939 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 31 | $321 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 17 | $256 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in San Diego
- Robert WeinrebSan Diego$520K
- Eric NudlemanSan Diego$343K
- Daniel SchwartzSan Francisco$8M
- Michael BerlinWest Hollywood$5.7M
- Gilbert KlimanMenlo Park$1.5M
- Kuldev SinghStanford$1.5M
- Raymond DouglasBeverly Hills$1.3M
- John AffeldtLoma Linda$1.1M
- Srinivas SaddaPasadena$1M
- Sheri RowenNewport Beach$1M
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.