Sumitra Khandelwal, MD
Ophthalmology · Houston, TXNPI 1093971079
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 395 payments — averaging $718.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$68K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$28K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$27K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$27K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec Production LLC$24K
- AbbVie$22K
- plus $89K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$125,75764%
- Speaking & faculty fees$44,68523%
- Travel & lodging$3,7692%
- Food & beverage$15,7218%
- Education$6,0383%
- Gifts$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $67,593 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 37 | $27,516 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 35 | $27,240 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 49 | $26,659 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec Production LLC | 4 | $24,274 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 50 | $21,828 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 30 | $18,074 |
| Omeros Corporation | 7 | $9,694 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $9,616 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 4 | $7,532 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 10 | $6,105 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 13 | $5,969 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $5,257 |
| Novartis | 10 | $4,850 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 8 | $4,563 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 3 | $4,177 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $3,239 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 51 | $2,908 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 7 | $1,449 |
| Nordic Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $1,448 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $1,400 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 8 | $1,083 |
| Alcon | 7 | $596 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 2 | $195 |
| Haag-streit USA, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $100 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $93 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $17 |
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$18,950
- IFS ADVANCED FEMTOSEC LASER$18,950
- INTRALASE FS FEMTOSEC LASER$18,950
- Oxervate$17,443
- VisuMax$10,300
- XIIDRA$10,027
- DEXTENZA$9,876
- OMIDRIA$9,598
- CIRRUS HD-OCT$7,525
- IOLMaster 700$7,325
- IOLMaster$6,500
- VERACITY SURGICAL$6,456
- CALLISTO eye$5,800
- KXL System$5,475
- QUATERA 700$4,375
- TYRVAYA$3,950
- LOTEMAX SM$3,777
- VUITY$3,507
- MIEBO$3,307
- MEL 90$3,200
How this compares
$283,831 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 66 | $66,946 |
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 23 | $17,164 |
| Cyclosporine | 27 | $13,245 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 187 | $8,801 |
| TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate | 11 | $7,139 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 45 | $5,927 |
| Difluprednate | 42 | $5,692 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 207 | $4,812 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 33 | $2,842 |
| Fluorometholone | 20 | $1,674 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 19 | $231 |
| Timolol Maleate | 28 | $219 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 16 | $161 |
| Ofloxacin | 11 | $102 |
| Latanoprost | 13 | $78 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis | $21,828 | $66,94666 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo | $27,516 | $17,16423 claims |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya | $67,593 | $7,13911 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate | $5,257 | $5,92745 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 90th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
Other ophthalmology in Houston
- David BrownHouston$51.7M
- John MichelettiHouston$3.3M
- Michael CaplanHouston$1.4M
- Shaheen KavoussiHouston$1.3M
- Kevin JongHouston$1.2M
- Stephen SladeHouston$1.2M
- Rosa TangHouston$1.1M
- Zaina Al-MohtasebHouston$1.1M
- Fiaz ZamanHouston$1M
- Stephen PflugfelderHouston$788K
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.