Mustafa Safi, MD
Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Eureka, CANPI 1518325455
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 10 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Alcon accounts for 60.9% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $453 and has fallen 73.4% since, to $120 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for cornea and external diseases specialist clinicians in CA, where the typical reported total is $4,024.
Across 10 payments — averaging $59.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$360
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$111
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$39
- Rxsight Inc$32
- AbbVie$26
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$23
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$591100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 5 | $360 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $32 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $26 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$111
- Clareon$109
- Centurion$109
How this compares
$591 in reported general payments places this provider in the 10th percentile of 50 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in California.
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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 | 99 | $3,377 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 65 | $1,765 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 14 | $1,038 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 18 | $238 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 23 | $225 |
| Latanoprost | 14 | $34 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other cornea and external diseases specialist in Eureka
- Sumit GargIrvine$808K
- Jillian ChongBeverly Hills$113K
- Tyson KimSan Francisco$91K
- Edward MancheStanford$78K
- Michael SavetskyCulver City$63K
- Michael SaidelSonoma$51K
- Matthew WadeIrvine$38K
- Lawrence ChaoIrvine$36K
- William ChristianSanta Monica$33K
- Alexander FosterEncinitas$29K
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.