Sumit Garg, MD
Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Irvine, CANPI 1881878262
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 729 payments — averaging $1197.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$333K
- Samsara Vision$98K
- Beaver-visitec International, Inc.$92K
- AbbVie$64K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec Production LLC$64K
- Novartis$40K
- plus $183K from 28 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $7861.75 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.
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$8K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$668,52383%
- Speaking & faculty fees$93,77512%
- Grants$5,0001%
- Travel & lodging$16,4402%
- Food & beverage$24,2253%
- Education$180%
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.
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.
- Compact Intuitiv$138,294
- INTRALASE FS FEMTOSEC LASER$138,294
- IFS ADVANCED FEMTOSEC LASER$134,394
- Implantable Miniature Telescope$96,500
- Catalys Laser System$72,671
- COMPACT INTUITIV Phacofragmentation System$72,648
- Tecnis IOL$61,675
- XIIDRA$48,671
- Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$24,939
- VUITY$22,708
- Tecnis Simplicity$18,078
- VERITAS Vision System$13,892
- EYSUVIS$13,739
- Tecnis Symfony IOL$13,513
- TearCare$12,527
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$10,025
- TearCare SmartLid$9,188
- TEARCARE(TM) (2.2) SYSTEM KIT$9,188
- Oxervate$8,139
- Tecnis 1-piece IOL$7,190
How this compares
$872,791 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 50 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in California.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| XiidraLifitegrast | 71 | $92,311 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 93 | $84,582 |
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 17 | $15,602 |
| Cyclosporine | 45 | $15,466 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 373 | $12,267 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 271 | $5,733 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 26 | $3,368 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 236 | $2,957 |
| Fluorometholone | 34 | $1,918 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf | 11 | $1,817 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 42 | $1,178 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 25 | $303 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 21 | $264 |
| Latanoprost | 50 | $247 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 20 | $215 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Miebo | $2,427 | $107,91388 claims |
| AbbVieRestasis | $64,332 | $84,58293 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate | $5,355 | $3,36826 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 95th percentile of 50 cornea and external diseases specialist providers in California.
Other cornea and external diseases specialist in Irvine
- Lawrence ChaoIrvine$106K
- Matthew WadeIrvine$38K
- Jimmy LeeIrvine$17K
- Elizabeth ShenIrvine$11K
- Rakhi MelvaniIrvine$10K
- Edward MancheStanford$1.6M
- Shyamanga BorooahSan Diego$472K
- Gabriel ValerioSan Diego$126K
- Michael SaidelSonoma$121K
- Jillian ChongBeverly Hills$113K
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.