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

Christopher Starr

Cornea and External Diseases Specialist New York, NY Medical Doctor

NPI 1720076185 CMS profile 77987

1305 York Ave Fl 11, New York, NY 10021

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General payments

$294,227

272 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 Starr of New York, NY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $294,227 across 272 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 Cornea and External Diseases 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 $49,075 24
2024 General $39,107 32
2023 General $9,903 15
2022 General $16,636 21
2021 General $31,744 54
2020 General $110,536 62
2019 General $37,227 64

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Christopher Starr
  • Cornea and External Diseases Specialist median
  • Middle half of Cornea and External Diseases Specialist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Christopher Starr were reported at $49,075. Among 290 Cornea and External Diseases Specialist profiles paid that year, the median was $477 and the middle half received between $193 and $1,174.

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Year Christopher Starr Cornea and External Diseases Specialist median Middle half National median
2019 $37,227 $276 $111–$734 $163
2020 $110,536 $146 $48–$330 $114
2021 $31,744 $254 $116–$566 $132
2022 $16,636 $251 $106–$729 $149
2023 $9,903 $344 $149–$759 $160
2024 $39,107 $366 $170–$927 $164
2025 $49,075 $477 $193–$1,174 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $39,462 33 payments
  2. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $37,159 22 payments
  3. Allergan Inc. $36,773 63 payments
  4. Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. $36,603 13 payments
  5. AbbVie, Inc. $35,800 14 payments
  6. Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $32,312 15 payments
  7. Dompe US, Inc. $22,764 30 payments
  8. TearLab Corp $11,412 9 payments
  9. Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $8,750 4 payments
  10. Alcon Vision LLC $6,508 8 payments
  11. Other $26,684 61 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $225,573 101 payments
  2. Honoraria $23,050 20 payments
  3. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $18,330 5 payments
  4. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $11,100 4 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $11,057 122 payments
  6. Travel and Lodging $2,617 19 payments
  7. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for an accredited or certified continuing education program $2,500 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XIIDRA Ophthalmology $37,910 23 payments
  2. Tecnis Symfony IOL $28,722 6 payments
  3. Tecnis Symfony Toric IOL $28,688 5 payments
  4. EYSUVIS $16,917 9 payments
  5. INVELTYS $12,250 4 payments
  6. Oxervate Ophthalmic Solution/Drops $10,147 11 payments
  7. Oxervate Ophthalmic Solution/Drops $7,767 11 payments
  8. RESTASIS $7,438 10 payments
  9. TearLab Osmolarity System $6,460 6 payments
  10. XIIDRA Ophthalmology $5,518 7 payments
  11. Other $56,461 124 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 · 13 drugs

Part D claims

416

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$277,131

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

82.5%

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
Miebo Perfluorohexyloctane/Pf Brand 128 $102,833
Xdemvy Lotilaner Brand 44 $80,273
Restasis Cyclosporine Brand 41 $54,127
Xiidra Lifitegrast Brand 24 $20,305
Tyrvaya Varenicline Tartrate Brand 14 $8,962
Tobradex Tobramycin/Dexamethasone Brand 15 $3,873
Loteprednol Etabonate Generic 18 $2,368
Moxifloxacin Moxifloxacin Hcl Brand 37 $1,191
Prednisolone Acetate Generic 27 $1,012
Tobramycin-Dexamethasone Tobramycin/Dexamethasone Brand 26 $888

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 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 · 35 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$234,187

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

1,091

Average age 77

Services billed

3,741

733 women, 358 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 60%
Arthritis 54%
Osteoporosis 32%
Ischemic heart disease 26%
Diabetes 21%
Cancer 21%
Depression 17%
Atrial fibrillation 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

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
XIIDRA
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $8,635
$8,635 24 —
XDEMVY
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $3,750
$3,750 44 —
TEPEZZA
  • Amgen Inc. $2,063
$2,063 — —
MIEBO
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $141
$141 128 —
Cequa
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. $31
$31 — —

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

272 reported

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What this means

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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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