Philip Niles, MD
Retina Specialist · Williamsville, NYNPI 1609136126
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $25,604 of the $29,845 with a category attached, or 85.8%. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. accounts for 83.1% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $7,827, more than ten times the $662 reported in 2019. Among retina specialist clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 82 payments — averaging $363.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$25K
- Regeneron$2K
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$1K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$458
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$359
- Alcon$343
- plus $810 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25,60486%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,2004%
- Food & beverage$3,02410%
- Education$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 34 | $24,808 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $1,848 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $1,220 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 14 | $458 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $359 |
| Alcon | 4 | $343 |
| Novartis | 6 | $254 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $127 |
| Amgen | 1 | $115 |
| Omeros Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $64 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
$29,845 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 99 retina specialist providers in New York.
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 | 361 | $12,149 |
| IlevroNepafenac | 19 | $9,219 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 139 | $3,082 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 111 | $1,928 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 39 | $1,798 |
| Timolol Maleate | 22 | $780 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 32 | $696 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 24 | $343 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| NovartisIlevro | $254 | $9,21919 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 90th percentile of 99 retina specialist providers in New York.
Other retina specialist in Williamsville
- Paul HahnNanuet$238K
- Deepika MalikWoodbury$221K
- Szilard KissNew York$195K
- Ferhina AliValhalla$176K
- Donald D'amicoNew York$109K
- Matthew WitmerRochester$62K
- Avnish DeobhaktaBrooklyn$46K
- Edward HallRochester$38K
- Mark BreazzanoLiverpool$30K
- Sarwar ZahidJackson Heights$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.