Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Arvind Neelakantan

Ophthalmology Dallas, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1205889052 CMS profile 236402

9600 N Central Expy Ste 300, Dallas, TX 75231

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General payments

$90,133

319 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Arvind Neelakantan of Dallas, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $90,133 across 319 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 96th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,942 42
2024 General $564 30
2023 General $1,438 34
2022 General $14,854 36
2021 General $20,967 53
2020 General $14,872 40
2019 General $35,496 84

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Arvind Neelakantan
  • Ophthalmology median
  • Middle half of Ophthalmology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Arvind Neelakantan were reported at $1,942. Among 13,034 Ophthalmology profiles paid that year, the median was $384 and the middle half received between $136 and $917.

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Year Arvind Neelakantan Ophthalmology median Middle half National median
2019 $35,496 $258 $104–$655 $163
2020 $14,872 $126 $45–$321 $114
2021 $20,967 $205 $76–$534 $132
2022 $14,854 $266 $100–$678 $149
2023 $1,438 $308 $117–$745 $160
2024 $564 $340 $127–$846 $164
2025 $1,942 $384 $136–$917 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $44,364 61 payments
  2. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $23,981 38 payments
  3. Alcon Vision LLC $7,754 43 payments
  4. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $7,645 16 payments
  5. Allergan Inc. $1,675 57 payments
  6. AbbVie, Inc. $1,453 46 payments
  7. Glaukos Corporation $1,172 16 payments
  8. New World Medical,Inc. $407 4 payments
  9. Sight Sciences, Inc. $242 9 payments
  10. Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. $227 6 payments
  11. Other $1,214 23 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $50,296 18 payments
  2. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $14,000 5 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $10,096 258 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $7,187 32 payments
  5. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $6,975 3 payments
  6. Consulting Fee $1,540 2 payments
  7. Education $40 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. rocklatan Glaucoma $33,958 41 payments
  2. rhopressa Glaucoma $33,793 38 payments
  3. VYZULTA $31,392 48 payments
  4. Rocklatan Glaucoma $16,930 26 payments
  5. Rhopressa Glaucoma $11,248 17 payments
  6. XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM $680 18 payments
  7. Rocklatan Ophthalmology $530 22 payments
  8. COMBIGAN $527 14 payments
  9. LUMIGAN Ophthalmology $443 8 payments
  10. LUMIGAN Eye Care $407 22 payments
  11. Other $6,520 148 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 29 drugs

Part D claims

5,784

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$425,367

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

33.4%

Median for Ophthalmology: 29.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Lumigan Bimatoprost Brand 149 $75,654
Rocklatan Netarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost Brand 163 $70,304
Rhopressa Netarsudil Mesylate Brand 61 $26,948
Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 62 $24,840
Alphagan P Brimonidine Tartrate Brand 48 $22,359
Prednisolone Acetate Generic 399 $20,811
Brimonidine Tartrate-Timolol Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 147 $19,385
Miebo Perfluorohexyloctane/Pf Brand 15 $15,470
Simbrinza Brinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart Brand 69 $15,260
Travoprost Generic 90 $15,259

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 29 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,260 Part D prescribers listed as Ophthalmology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 43 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$220,054

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

604

Average age 77

Services billed

3,384

330 women, 274 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 37%
Diabetes 29%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
Ischemic heart disease 24%
Atrial fibrillation 17%
Heart failure 14%
Depression 14%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

4 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
LUMIGAN
  • AbbVie, Inc. $148
$148 149 —
Rocklatan
  • Alcon Vision LLC $114
$114 163 —
VYZULTA
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $63
$63 45 —
XIIDRA
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $21
$21 18 —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

Records

319 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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