Sara Shkalim Shiassias, OD
Optometrist · West Berlin, NJNPI 1811203276
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.5% of the total across 41 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 33.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $405, 8.9 times the $45 reported in 2019.
Across 41 payments — averaging $20.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$288
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$148
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$115
- Alcon$75
- Coopervision Inc.$67
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$50
- plus $114 from 4 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $3783.33 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$11K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$81795%
- Gifts$395%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 15 | $288 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $148 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $115 |
| Alcon | 4 | $75 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 4 | $67 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $50 |
| Amgen | 3 | $46 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Novartis | 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.
- Contact Lens$123
How this compares
$856 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,357 optometrist providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 52 | $359 |
| Timolol Maleate | 13 | $74 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in West Berlin
- Kerry GelbWoodbridge$264K
- Rodolfo RodriguezNorth Bergen$244K
- Steven SorkinFairfield$146K
- Paul VaccarellaRockaway$99K
- Ada NohCinnaminson$74K
- Melanne RosettaIselin$66K
- Frank BuccieroSpringfield$57K
- Victoria DzurinkoDeptford$47K
- Michael McAleeseHowell$33K
- Gary RochaParamus$31K
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.