Thomas Bournias, MD
Ophthalmology · Chicago, ILNPI 1386712180
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 499 payments — averaging $20.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$930
- Novartis$909
- Alcon$835
- Thea Pharma Inc.$611
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$604
- plus $3K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$9,961100%
- Gifts$450%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 171 | $2,758 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 45 | $930 |
| Novartis | 56 | $909 |
| Alcon | 41 | $835 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 24 | $611 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 28 | $604 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 18 | $463 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 20 | $456 |
| Surgical Specialties Corporation (US), Inc. (dba Corza Medical) | 3 | $342 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 15 | $299 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 8 | $275 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 11 | $255 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 12 | $238 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 10 | $227 |
| Akorn Operating Company LLC | 6 | $130 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 7 | $113 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 4 | $92 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $77 |
| Amgen | 3 | $66 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $49 |
| Lumibird Medical Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Tearlab Corp | 1 | $18 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- IYUZEH$141
- LUMIGAN$125
- Prokera$117
- AmnioGraft$117
How this compares
$10,006 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.
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 | 189 | $85,892 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 63 | $68,946 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 37 | $48,721 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 770 | $39,782 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 53 | $20,711 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 43 | $16,749 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 36 | $10,901 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 16 | $10,130 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 50 | $9,765 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 99 | $9,160 |
| Travatan ZTravoprost | 19 | $7,968 |
| Travoprost | 36 | $7,490 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 12 | $7,460 |
| Cosopt PfDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf | 21 | $6,481 |
| Latanoprost | 390 | $4,742 |
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 | $2,758 | $186,451341 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta | $456 | $56,18149 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan | $299 | $26,87959 claims |
| NovartisTravatan Z | $909 | $7,96819 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $835 | $4,54117 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 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.
Other ophthalmology in Chicago
- Seenu HariprasadChicago$2.3M
- Manjot GillChicago$1.4M
- Amani FawziChicago$864K
- Sarah SunshineChicago$664K
- Jennifer LimChicago$636K
- Dilraj GrewalChicago$543K
- Ahmad ArefChicago$355K
- Yannek LeidermanChicago$312K
- Asim FarooqChicago$270K
- Armin AfsharChicago$213K
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.