Tara Golisch, MD
Glaucoma Specialist · Phoenix, AZNPI 1083841704
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 107 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 107 payments — averaging $18.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$317
- AbbVie$300
- Alcon$290
- Rxsight Inc$175
- Novartis$173
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$169
- plus $531 from 11 others
Across 22 payments — averaging $36.82 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.
- Notal Vision, Inc.$810
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,955100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 28 | $317 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 28 | $300 |
| Alcon | 8 | $290 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $175 |
| Novartis | 16 | $173 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $169 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $146 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 4 | $120 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $66 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $48 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $14 |
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
Too few glaucoma specialist providers in Arizonato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 89 | $44,922 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 101 | $32,229 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 35 | $21,430 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 15 | $19,377 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 42 | $18,624 |
| IyuzehLatanoprost/Pf | 34 | $16,475 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 304 | $16,458 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 524 | $15,310 |
| Travoprost | 57 | $12,146 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf | 55 | $9,939 |
| Timolol Maleate | 550 | $9,287 |
| Latanoprost | 904 | $9,130 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 494 | $8,413 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 411 | $6,926 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 18 | $6,912 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieAlphagan P, Lumigan, Restasis, Combigan | $300 | $79,948169 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan | $317 | $63,545131 claims |
| Thea Pharma Inc.Iyuzeh | $37 | $16,47534 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $290 | $6,58826 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. There are too few glaucoma specialist providers in Arizonaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other glaucoma specialist in Phoenix
- Christine FunkePhoenix$255K
- Max KimPhoenix$10K
- Neil AtodariaPhoenix$3K
- Howard BerlinPhoenix$937
- Andrew RabinowitzPhoenix$396
- John LewisMesa$61K
- Robert SpurnyMesa$5K
- David KayMesa$4K
- Trenton BowenGilbert$4K
- Michael CampionScottsdale$3K
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.