Richard Malara
Corneal and Contact Management · Baldwinsville, NYNPI 1386634210
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,593 of the $8,328 with a category attached, or 79.2%. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 31.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,897 and has fallen 77.2% since, to $661 in 2025. Among corneal and contact management 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 175 payments — averaging $47.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$3K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$538
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$377
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$362
- Coopervision Inc.$281
- plus $3K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1992%
- Travel & lodging$1,20714%
- Food & beverage$6,59379%
- Entertainment$481%
- Other$2803%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 66 | $2,608 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 11 | $1,509 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 7 | $538 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $377 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 12 | $362 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 12 | $281 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $280 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 3 | $234 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $213 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $194 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 5 | $176 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $174 |
| Novartis | 10 | $167 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $146 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $138 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $130 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $129 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $111 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $100 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 3 | $96 |
| Tearlab Corp | 2 | $95 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- Precision 1$940
- DAILIES$247
- TearCare SmartLid$222
- TEARCARE(TM) (2.2) SYSTEM KIT$222
- Precision7$141
- DAILIES TOTAL1$129
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$125
- EYSUVIS$125
- INFUSE$121
- TEPEZZA$113
- OMNI$111
- XIIDRA$107
- BROMSITE$106
How this compares
$8,328 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 68 corneal and contact management providers in New York.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 70 | $28,975 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 23 | $25,745 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 16 | $21,371 |
| Timolol Maleate | 104 | $10,358 |
| Cyclosporine | 18 | $8,487 |
| Travoprost | 20 | $5,761 |
| Latanoprost | 293 | $2,454 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 16 | $704 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis | $174 | $54,72093 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra | $213 | $21,37116 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 68 corneal and contact management providers in New York.
Other corneal and contact management in Baldwinsville
- Michele LaganaHoneoye Falls$248K
- Avani DaveBuffalo$122K
- Kevin RosinNew York$59K
- Jeffrey CooperBrooklyn$52K
- Kevork NiksarliNew York$27K
- David BraunSyracuse$7K
- Michael RaffBrockport$6K
- Angela DussanLong Island City$6K
- Christina ChernyNew York$5K
- Nadine EisenbergNew York$4K
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.