Rushil Rao, MD
Retina Specialist · San Antonio, TXNPI 1518250398
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,294 of the $2,794 with a category attached, or 82.1%. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $927 and has fallen 65.7% since, to $318 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for retina specialist clinicians in TX, where the typical reported total is $2,568.
Across 54 payments — averaging $51.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$535
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$402
- AbbVie$393
- Alimera Sciences, Inc.$392
- Genentech USA, Inc.$262
- Dutch Ophthalmic, USA$216
- plus $594 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1505%
- Speaking & faculty fees$35013%
- Food & beverage$2,29482%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 14 | $535 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 13 | $402 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $393 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $392 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Dutch Ophthalmic, USA | 3 | $216 |
| Cardinal Health 110 LLC | 1 | $150 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $138 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $127 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $109 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Novartis | 1 | $21 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$2,794 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 108 retina specialist 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 14 | $737 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 14 | $383 |
| Latanoprost | 29 | $139 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in San Antonio
- Moises ChicaSan Antonio$43K
- Sarah HolySan Antonio$18K
- Richard LaneSan Antonio$17K
- Duncan FriedmanSan Antonio$9K
- Thomas OeiSan Antonio$9K
- Timothy ClelandSan Antonio$6K
- Lina MaroufSan Antonio$4K
- Dianne BarrettSan Antonio$4K
- Abumere AkinwaleSan Antonio$3K
- Enchun LiuSan Antonio$3K
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.