Salar Rafieetary, MD
Retina Specialist · Germantown, TNNPI 1174052237
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $28,000 of the $36,770 with a category attached, or 76.1%. Astellas Pharma US Inc accounts for 84.7% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $23,678 and has fallen 52.7% since, to $11,203 in 2025.
Across 99 payments — averaging $371.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$31K
- Optos, Inc.$3K
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$617
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$537
- Harrow Eye, LLC$237
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$221
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,00076%
- Travel & lodging$5,09714%
- Food & beverage$3,3299%
- Education$980%
- Entertainment$2451%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 28 | $31,141 |
| Optos, Inc. | 4 | $2,902 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $617 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 13 | $537 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $237 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 7 | $221 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $216 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 5 | $208 |
| Alcon | 4 | $146 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $121 |
| Novartis | 1 | $104 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $103 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $69 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $22 |
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
$36,770 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 58 retina specialist providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 21 | $7,649 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 179 | $7,578 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 88 | $6,949 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 150 | $2,318 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 17 | $1,678 |
| Latanoprost | 216 | $1,499 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 50 | $1,243 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 19 | $900 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 19 | $566 |
| Tobramycin | 98 | $522 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 22 | $383 |
| Timolol Maleate | 35 | $316 |
| Acyclovir | 15 | $58 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieCombigan | $69 | $7,64921 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 80th percentile of 58 retina specialist providers in Tennessee.
Other retina specialist in Germantown
- Steve CharlesGermantown$5.8M
- Stephen HuddlestonGermantown$31K
- Scott SullivanGermantown$5K
- David FingerhutGermantown$4K
- Kyle VinsonGermantown$2K
- Wesley GilletteGermantown$1K
- Carl AwhNashville$1.3M
- Peter SonkinNashville$949K
- Brandon BusbeeNashville$566K
- Eric SchneiderNashville$134K
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.