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Stephen Couvillion, MD

Retina Specialist · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1316980014

Payments from drug & device makers

$361,178in general payments, 2019–2025

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

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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.

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.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$9,693,648
Medicare patients
2,137
Services billed
67,250

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Prednisolone Acetate242$12,408
ProlensaBromfenac Sodium31$10,246
LumiganBimatoprost24$9,574
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate18$6,324
Atropine Sulfate111$5,538
Bromfenac Sodium20$5,217
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol12$4,976
Brimonidine Tartrate54$4,389
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost11$3,594
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol21$3,381
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl115$2,701
Lotemax SmLoteprednol Etabonate11$2,643
Ketorolac Tromethamine136$2,487
Loteprednol Etabonate11$1,806
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha137$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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart 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.

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