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

Cecilia Sanchez

Retina Specialist Austin, TX Medical Doctor

NPI 1376616011 CMS profile 108001

5717 Balcones Dr, Austin, TX 78731

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General payments

$3,050

83 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$890,110 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2024

Through program year 2025, Cecilia Sanchez of Austin, TX is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $3,050 across 83 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $890,110 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 53rd percentile of Retina Specialist 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 $499 16
2024 General $352 10
2023 General $594 16
2022 General $379 13
2021 General $119 6
2020 General $255 9
2019 General $852 13

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Cecilia Sanchez
  • Retina Specialist median
  • Middle half of Retina Specialist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Cecilia Sanchez were reported at $499. Among 1,235 Retina Specialist profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $175 and $1,079.

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Year Cecilia Sanchez Retina Specialist median Middle half National median
2019 $852 $410 $157–$1,517 $163
2020 $255 $168 $65–$778 $114
2021 $119 $258 $101–$1,161 $132
2022 $379 $418 $162–$1,488 $149
2023 $594 $476 $178–$1,312 $160
2024 $352 $520 $188–$1,372 $164
2025 $499 $457 $175–$1,079 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $856 16 payments
  2. Genentech USA, Inc. $315 15 payments
  3. RxSight Inc $288 2 payments
  4. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $240 10 payments
  5. AbbVie, Inc. $199 9 payments
  6. Astellas Pharma US Inc $193 7 payments
  7. Optos, Inc. $160 2 payments
  8. Alcon Vision LLC $138 1 payment
  9. Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. $128 2 payments
  10. Alimera Sciences, Inc. $104 4 payments
  11. Other $429 15 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $2,364 79 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $385 1 payment
  3. Entertainment $144 1 payment
  4. Education $93 1 payment
  5. Long term medical supply or device loan $64 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. BEOVU $744 13 payments
  2. RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS $288 2 payments
  3. RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE $288 2 payments
  4. RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE $288 2 payments
  5. RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD) $288 2 payments
  6. LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL) $288 2 payments
  7. VABYSMO $242 11 payments
  8. EYLEA HD $216 9 payments
  9. PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE Ophthalmology $160 2 payments
  10. PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE Ophthalmology $160 2 payments
  11. Other $1,736 46 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 · 1 drug

Part D claims

11

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$179

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

100%

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
Moxifloxacin Moxifloxacin Hcl Brand 11 $179

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 · 29 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$801,893

Of which drugs: $571,353

Medicare patients

331

Average age 77

Services billed

10,173

196 women, 135 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 74%
Diabetes 45%
Arthritis 36%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Chronic kidney disease 26%
Osteoporosis 21%
Depression 19%
Atrial fibrillation 14%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, aflibercept, 1 mg J0178 Office 59 448 $295,178
Injection, faricimab-svoa, 0.1 mg J2777 Office 31 6,780 $185,053
Injection, aflibercept hd, 1 mg J0177 Office 14 264 $70,304
Injection, bevacizumab, 10 mg J9035 Office 30 68 $3,860

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

First 5 of 7 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
Izervay
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc $61
$61 — —
VABYSMO
  • Genentech USA, Inc. $48
$48 — 6,780
EYLEA HD
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $42
$42 — 264
DEXTENZA
  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. $19
$19 — —
OXERVATE
  • Dompe US, Inc. $15
$15 — —

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.

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Records

83 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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