Stephen Couvillion, MD
Retina Specialist · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1316980014
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 276 payments — averaging $1308.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$176K
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$118K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$33K
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$23K
- Alcon$2K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$2K
- plus $6K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,38519%
- Speaking & faculty fees$21,60050%
- Travel & lodging$2,5276%
- Food & beverage$8,24819%
- Gifts$2,1295%
- Ownership interest$2551%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Genentech, Inc. | 27 | $175,858 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 15 | $118,388 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 49 | $33,210 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23,038 |
| Alcon | 12 | $2,358 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $2,199 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 40 | $1,208 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 41 | $1,014 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 27 | $756 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $750 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $502 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 9 | $329 |
| US Retina LLC | 2 | $255 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $245 |
| Iridex Corporation | 3 | $242 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $180 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $150 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $134 |
| Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $101 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 5 | $94 |
| Biogen | 4 | $89 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $62 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
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
$361,178 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 187 retina specialist providers in California.
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 | 242 | $12,408 |
| ProlensaBromfenac Sodium | 31 | $10,246 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 24 | $9,574 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 18 | $6,324 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 111 | $5,538 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 20 | $5,217 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 12 | $4,976 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 54 | $4,389 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 11 | $3,594 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 21 | $3,381 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 115 | $2,701 |
| Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate | 11 | $2,643 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 136 | $2,487 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 11 | $1,806 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 137 | $1,325 |
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, Alphagan P, Combigan | $1,014 | $20,87454 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Lotemax Sm, Loteprednol Etabonate | $18 | $14,69453 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan | $23,038 | $3,59411 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 187 retina specialist providers in California.
Other retina specialist in Santa Barbara
- Dante PieramiciSanta Barbara$15.1M
- Dilsher DhootSanta Barbara$8.2M
- Nathan SteinleSanta Barbara$2.6M
- Alessandro CastellarinSanta Barbara$1.1M
- Nika BagheriSanta Barbara$528K
- Robert AverySanta Barbara$190K
- Daniel LearnedSanta Barbara$146K
- Margaret ChangSacramento$13.2M
- Hani Salehi-HadHuntington Beach$12.2M
- Payam AminiPasadena$9.9M
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.