Has Yousuf Khalifa, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $49,576 in general payments to Yousuf Khalifa, MD across 39 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Yousuf Khalifa, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Yousuf Khalifa, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Yousuf Khalifa, MD

Ophthalmology · Rochester, NYNPI 1104907963

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $32,650 of the $49,576 with a category attached, or 65.9%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. at 39.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $18,503, 2.5 times the $7,518 reported in 2019. Among ophthalmology clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$49,576in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $1271.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$20K
Glaukos Corporation$10K
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$8K
Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc.$6K
Alcon$5K
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$178

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$32,65066%
Speaking & faculty fees$6,80014%
Travel & lodging$8,70018%
Food & beverage$1,4263%

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
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.	14	$19,792
Glaukos Corporation	6	$10,214
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	6	$7,869
Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc.	2	$6,189
Alcon	9	$5,334
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	2	$178

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.

CALLISTO eye$14,444
Epioxa$8,067
FORUM$6,844
OPMI Lumera 700$6,844
IOLMaster 700$6,844
None Specified$6,189
VisuMax$4,400
ATLAS 500$4,400
QUATERA 700$3,200
CIRRUS HD-OCT$3,200
CIRRUS 6000 with AngioPlex$3,200
ARTEVO 800$2,704
IOLMaster$2,475
Travoprost Intraocular Implant - iDose$1,834
KXL System$158
Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$155

How this compares

$49,576 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,587 ophthalmology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$93,788

Medicare patients

195

Services billed

412

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	15	$17,010
Prednisolone Acetate	214	$9,687
Cyclosporine	23	$5,609
TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone	17	$5,092
Travoprost	12	$2,420
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	43	$2,033
Brimonidine Tartrate	57	$1,944
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	80	$1,479
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	45	$928
Atropine Sulfate	17	$831
Ketorolac Tromethamine	16	$549
Latanoprost	43	$401
Dorzolamide Hcl	17	$285
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	14	$128
Timolol Maleate	12	$113

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Rochester

David KleinmanRochester$730K
Scott MacraeRochester$74K
David RubaltelliBrooklyn$8.9M
Nathan RadcliffeNew York$2.1M
Richard SpaideNew York$1.7M
Eric DonnenfeldGarden City$1.4M
Marguerite McDonaldOceanside$893K
Joshua YoungNew York$814K
Jonathan JonischGreat Neck$726K
Joseph PanarelliNew York$541K

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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.

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