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Sumit Garg, MD

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist · Irvine, CANPI 1881878262

Payments from drug & device makers

$872,791in general payments, 2019–2025

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
$7,862in research payments, 2019–2025

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

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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

$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

Part B allowed, 2024
$606,392
Medicare patients
1,256
Services billed
3,936

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
XiidraLifitegrast71$92,311
RestasisCyclosporine93$84,582
MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf17$15,602
Cyclosporine45$15,466
Prednisolone Acetate373$12,267
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl271$5,733
Loteprednol Etabonate26$3,368
Ketorolac Tromethamine236$2,957
Fluorometholone34$1,918
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf11$1,817
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl42$1,178
Brimonidine Tartrate25$303
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat21$264
Latanoprost50$247
ErythromycinErythromycin Base20$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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart 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.

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