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

Christopher Blanton

Ophthalmology Colton, CA Medical Doctor

NPI 1336142892 CMS profile 242054

1900 E Washington Street, Colton, CA 92324

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General payments

$339,611

248 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, Christopher Blanton of Colton, CA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $339,611 across 248 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 98th 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 $37,542 27
2024 General $38,167 27
2023 General $43,620 34
2022 General $40,858 41
2021 General $59,370 42
2020 General $37,830 25
2019 General $82,223 52

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Blanton were reported at $37,542. 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 Christopher Blanton Ophthalmology median Middle half National median
2019 $82,223 $258 $104–$655 $163
2020 $37,830 $126 $45–$321 $114
2021 $59,370 $205 $76–$534 $132
2022 $40,858 $266 $100–$678 $149
2023 $43,620 $308 $117–$745 $160
2024 $38,167 $340 $127–$846 $164
2025 $37,542 $384 $136–$917 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. $331,838 179 payments
  2. Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC $6,288 21 payments
  3. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $654 20 payments
  4. Nova Eye, Inc. $149 1 payment
  5. Alcon Vision LLC $126 5 payments
  6. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $126 7 payments
  7. RxSight Inc $100 1 payment
  8. Glaukos Corporation $91 3 payments
  9. Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $55 3 payments
  10. Dompe US, Inc. $46 1 payment
  11. Other $139 7 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $326,538 115 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $6,452 4 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $5,195 125 payments
  4. Honoraria $1,000 1 payment
  5. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $408 2 payments
  6. Gift $19 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. STAR S4 IR $154,490 86 payments
  2. IFS ADVANCED FEMTOSEC LASER $115,339 47 payments
  3. INTRALASE FS FEMTOSEC LASER $53,690 37 payments
  4. ELITA $37,164 14 payments
  5. Healon Viscoelastics $29,244 4 payments
  6. iDesign Advanced Wavescan Studio $21,288 8 payments
  7. iFS Advanced Femtosecond Laser $10,124 3 payments
  8. IDESIGN RS $5,730 5 payments
  9. Flarex $2,860 11 payments
  10. Zerviate $1,607 3 payments
  11. Other $8,493 83 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

13

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$82

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

0%

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
Ofloxacin Generic 13 $82

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 · 5 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$2,547

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

17

Average age 71

Services billed

43

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 65%

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

2 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
Cequa
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $72
$72 — —
BromSite
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $72
$72 — —

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

248 reported

Every payment, record by record

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Other Ophthalmology in California

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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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