Nicolas Uzcategui
Ophthalmology · Scottsdale, AZNPI 1801983473
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 77 payments — averaging $42.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$730
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$426
- Coopervision Inc.$360
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$233
- Dutch Ophthalmic, USA$162
- Alcon$149
- plus $1K from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$66020%
- Food & beverage$2,56379%
- Entertainment$181%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 17 | $730 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 16 | $426 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $360 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 8 | $233 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 1 | $162 |
| Alcon | 2 | $149 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $146 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $143 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $131 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $81 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $64 |
| Stryker | 1 | $40 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $32 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Iridex Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 1 | $16 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $12 |
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.
- TEPEZZA$422
- ACTHAR$250
- EVA, combined machine$162
- TISSUEBLUE$162
- RESTASIS MULTIDOSE$125
- Hydrus Microstent$107
- EYSUVIS$105
How this compares
$3,240 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 310 ophthalmology providers in Arizona.
Other ophthalmology in Scottsdale
- Mark BarakatScottsdale$2.9M
- Jay SchwartzScottsdale$267K
- Kevin TozerScottsdale$32K
- Dharmendra PatelScottsdale$20K
- Paul PetelinScottsdale$20K
- Stephen HwangScottsdale$14K
- James GoldmanScottsdale$11K
- Michael DepenbuschChandler$2.3M
- Ramin SchadluPhoenix$1.8M
- Gerald WalmanSun City$1.7M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.