Steven Solomon, MD
Ophthalmology · Queensbury, NYNPI 1225060551
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 306 payments — averaging $28.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$495
- Amgen$491
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$483
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$411
- plus $3K from 25 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$120%
- Food & beverage$8,60599%
- Education$751%
- Entertainment$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 77 | $2,275 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 58 | $1,676 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 23 | $495 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 5 | $491 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 25 | $483 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 22 | $411 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $323 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 9 | $291 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 9 | $263 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $249 |
| Novartis | 13 | $223 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $222 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $184 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 9 | $159 |
| Omeros Corporation | 3 | $155 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $112 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $67 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $47 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 2 | $36 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $29 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Tearlab Corp | 1 | $14 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $6 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 2 | $6 |
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.
- TEPEZZA$357
- LUMIGAN$354
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$291
- SION SURGICAL INSTRUMENT$291
- DURYSTA$262
- Rocklatan$234
- Rhopressa$234
- Hydrus Microstent$149
- COMBIGAN$125
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$125
- VUITY$123
- XDEMVY$122
- OMIDRIA$121
- IOLMaster 500$120
- ORA$120
- IC-8 Apthera IOL$117
- Luxor$111
- Constellation$111
- LenSx$111
- ARGOS$109
How this compares
$8,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 161 | $96,703 |
| XdemvyLotilaner | 29 | $53,045 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 31 | $49,943 |
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 11 | $20,226 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 27 | $12,892 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 24 | $9,395 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 35 | $7,488 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 13 | $6,901 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 39 | $4,566 |
| Latanoprost | 329 | $3,994 |
| Travoprost | 25 | $3,102 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 80 | $2,393 |
| Bimatoprost | 13 | $2,209 |
| Timolol Maleate | 48 | $859 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 30 | $570 |
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, Restasis, Combigan, Alphagan P | $1,676 | $166,439232 claims |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy | $122 | $53,04529 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo | $495 | $20,22611 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $2,275 | $9,39524 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 85th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.
Other ophthalmology in Queensbury
- Douglas JabsNew York$24.3M
- David RubaltelliBrooklyn$8.9M
- Philip FerroneGreat Neck$5.8M
- Eric DonnenfeldGarden City$2.6M
- Nathan RadcliffeNew York$2.4M
- Glenn StollerRockville Centre$2.1M
- Richard SpaideNew York$1.7M
- Paul HartmanRochester$1.6M
- Jason SlakterNew York$1.2M
- David ChuNew York$1.2M
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.