Rahul Pandit, MD
Ophthalmology · Houston, TXNPI 1962467878
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 494 payments — averaging $585.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$169K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$65K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$46K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- Omeros Corporation$1K
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$1K
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$56,97120%
- Speaking & faculty fees$180,97163%
- Travel & lodging$37,55913%
- Food & beverage$13,6655%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 216 | $169,396 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 99 | $65,387 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 66 | $46,367 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $2,207 |
| Omeros Corporation | 2 | $1,424 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 4 | $1,345 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 19 | $597 |
| Alcon | 18 | $564 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $455 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $241 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $238 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 12 | $231 |
| Novartis | 7 | $120 |
| Samsara Vision | 3 | $113 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 3 | $111 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $69 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $60 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $30 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Akorn, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Merz North America, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- MIEBO$129,808
- XIIDRA$95,858
- LOTEMAX SM$39,935
- PROLENSA$19,391
- Catalys Laser System$17,145
- COMPACT INTUITIV Phacofragmentation System$17,145
- Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$12,200
- Compact Intuitiv$11,610
- IFS ADVANCED FEMTOSEC LASER$11,610
- INTRALASE FS FEMTOSEC LASER$11,610
- LOTEMAX$4,629
- Tecnis IOL$3,450
- BESIVANCE$2,211
- XDEMVY$2,136
- OMIDRIA$1,424
- DEXYCU$1,310
- Tecnis Symfony IOL$1,017
- Tecnis Symfony Toric IOL$875
- BLINK NUTRITEARS$850
- Tecnis Simplicity$774
How this compares
$289,173 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 162 | $129,088 |
| XdemvyLotilaner | 29 | $53,298 |
| Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine | 54 | $34,822 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 22 | $33,845 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 35 | $24,327 |
| TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate | 31 | $23,012 |
| Cyclosporine | 25 | $14,403 |
| ProlensaBromfenac Sodium | 34 | $11,446 |
| Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate | 27 | $7,463 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 126 | $4,958 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 27 | $3,855 |
| Difluprednate | 11 | $1,556 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 43 | $946 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 49 | $818 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 32 | $525 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo, Xiidra | $169,396 | $162,933184 claims |
| AbbVieRestasis Multidose, Restasis | $455 | $59,14989 claims |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy | $2,207 | $53,29829 claims |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya | $241 | $23,01231 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Lotemax Sm, Loteprednol Etabonate | $65,387 | $22,76388 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 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
Other ophthalmology in Houston
- David BrownHouston$51.7M
- John MichelettiHouston$3.3M
- Michael CaplanHouston$1.4M
- Shaheen KavoussiHouston$1.3M
- Kevin JongHouston$1.2M
- Stephen SladeHouston$1.2M
- Rosa TangHouston$1.1M
- Zaina Al-MohtasebHouston$1.1M
- Fiaz ZamanHouston$1M
- Stephen PflugfelderHouston$788K
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.