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Nathan Steinle, MD

Retina Specialist · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1942455423

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,619,828in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,008 payments — averaging $2599.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Genentech, Inc.$800K
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$544K
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$432K
  • Novartis$401K
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$162K
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$94K
  • plus $188K from 20 others
$14,954in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $1359.46 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.

  • Regeneron$12K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$2K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$157,66015%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$775,31772%
  • Travel & lodging$117,86811%
  • Food & beverage$26,1572%
  • Ownership interest$2550%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$2,619,828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 187 retina specialist providers in California.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$12,465,634
Medicare patients
3,051
Services billed
220,352

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Prednisolone Acetate695$22,414
LumiganBimatoprost37$21,426
Brimonidine Tartrate126$5,186
Cyclosporine16$3,677
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate11$3,633
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol26$3,521
Latanoprost308$3,448
Travoprost26$3,252
Difluprednate32$3,221
Atropine Sulfate94$2,742
Ofloxacin278$2,696
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat153$1,927
Timolol Maleate162$1,409
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone25$1,370
Ketorolac Tromethamine41$799

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P$5,033$25,06048 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 95th percentile of 187 retina specialist providers in California.

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