Has Nicholas Iafe, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $9,222 in general payments to Nicholas Iafe, MD across 108 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 Nicholas Iafe, 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 Nicholas Iafe, 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.

Nicholas Iafe, MD

Retina Specialist · Brentwood, MONPI 1942733811

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Eyepoint US, Inc. at 33.2% of the total.

$9,222in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 108 payments — averaging $85.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Eyepoint US, Inc.$3K
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$2K
AbbVie$1K
Dutch Ophthalmic, USA$953
Genentech USA, Inc.$591
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$438
plus $1K from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,75030%
Travel & lodging$1,49516%
Food & beverage$4,97854%

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
Eyepoint US, Inc.	5	$3,057
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	10	$1,990
AbbVie(2 entities)	34	$1,148
Dutch Ophthalmic, USA	7	$953
Genentech USA, Inc.	18	$591
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	10	$438
Alcon	4	$326
Astellas Pharma US Inc	10	$267
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$143
Genentech, Inc.	1	$141
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	3	$66
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$61
Alimera Sciences, Inc.	2	$40

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

$9,222 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 45 retina specialist providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$2,842,388

Medicare patients

975

Services billed

26,150

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	229	$8,770
Bromfenac Sodium	27	$4,183
Ketorolac Tromethamine	192	$3,620
Difluprednate	16	$2,050
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	84	$1,712
Atropine Sulfate	42	$1,565
Brimonidine Tartrate	48	$1,335
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	30	$361
Dorzolamide Hcl	29	$339
Latanoprost	30	$220
Ofloxacin	17	$160
Timolol Maleate	27	$102
Diclofenac Sodium	11	$40

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Ollya FromalBrentwood$14K
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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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