Has Mitul Vakharia, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,485 in general payments to Mitul Vakharia, MD across 11 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Mitul Vakharia, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Mitul Vakharia, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Mitul Vakharia, MD

Ophthalmology · Rockford, ILNPI 1750304952

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by charitable contributions: $900 of the $1,485 with a category attached, or 60.6%. Microsurgical Technology, Inc. accounts for 60.6% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,135, 6.2 times the $183 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for ophthalmology clinicians in IL, where the typical reported total is $1,164.

$1,485in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $135.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Microsurgical Technology, Inc.$900
Alcon$535
AbbVie$33
Iridex Corporation$17

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$121%
Food & beverage$57339%
Charitable contribution$90061%

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
Microsurgical Technology, Inc.	1	$900
Alcon	7	$535
AbbVie	2	$33
Iridex Corporation	1	$17

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

$1,485 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$343,936

Medicare patients

388

Services billed

1,470

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	600	$25,268
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium	53	$18,704
Tobramycin	609	$2,156
Cyclosporine	11	$1,947
Ketorolac Tromethamine	43	$812
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	18	$775
Latanoprost	17	$260
Ofloxacin	15	$111
Dorzolamide Hcl	14	$93
Timolol Maleate	19	$57
Brimonidine Tartrate	13	$33

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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