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

Malik Kahook

Glaucoma Specialist Aurora, CO Medical Doctor

NPI 1578537122 CMS profile 891642

12605 E 16Th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045

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General payments

$1,343,570

134 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$2,293,879

10 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Research they led as principal investigator

$28,308 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2020

Through program year 2025, Malik Kahook of Aurora, CO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,343,570 across 134 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $28,308 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $2,293,879 across 10 holdings.

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 99th percentile of Glaucoma Specialist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

10 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $464 6
2024 General $615 7
2023 General $714 12
2022 General $571,892 23
2021 General $258,750 5
2020 General $244,083 24
2019 General $267,051 57
2025 Ownership $1,050,970 8
2024 Ownership $792,872 1
2023 Ownership $450,036 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Malik Kahook
  • Glaucoma Specialist median
  • Middle half of Glaucoma Specialist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Malik Kahook were reported at $464. Among 370 Glaucoma Specialist profiles paid that year, the median was $597 and the middle half received between $244 and $1,607.

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Year Malik Kahook Glaucoma Specialist median Middle half National median
2019 $267,051 $433 $150–$1,170 $163
2020 $244,083 $242 $74–$693 $114
2021 $258,750 $324 $122–$936 $132
2022 $571,892 $399 $121–$1,081 $149
2023 $714 $458 $190–$1,208 $160
2024 $615 $558 $215–$1,359 $164
2025 $464 $597 $244–$1,607 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. New World Medical,Inc. $1,252,712 83 payments
  2. Alcon Vision LLC $58,358 8 payments
  3. Alcon Research LLC $18,799 15 payments
  4. Allergan Inc. $9,509 18 payments
  5. Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $2,190 3 payments
  6. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $1,766 3 payments
  7. Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. $134 3 payments
  8. The Cameron-Ehlen Group, Inc. $103 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Current or prospective ownership or investment interest $1,237,781 19 payments
  2. Acquisitions $56,513 1 payment
  3. Consulting Fee $29,138 18 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $14,847 27 payments
  5. Food and Beverage $5,291 69 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Ahmed Glaucoma Valve $1,244,496 67 payments
  2. Kahook Dual Blade $1,244,496 67 payments
  3. Streamline Surgical System $507,656 14 payments
  4. HYDRUS Microstent $56,733 5 payments
  5. CyPass $3,420 4 payments
  6. Rocklatan $2,190 3 payments
  7. VYZULTA $1,766 3 payments
  8. LUMIGAN $1,000 1 payment
  9. XEN $1,000 1 payment
  10. Clearpath $909 12 payments
  11. Other $2,639 28 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 · 9 drugs

Part D claims

526

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$58,966

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

37.3%

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 47 $30,114
Simbrinza Brinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart Brand 43 $14,487
Latanoprost Generic 206 $3,519
Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 11 $3,284
Alphagan P Brimonidine Tartrate Brand 13 $2,368
Brimonidine Tartrate Generic 54 $1,877
Dorzolamide-Timolol Dorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat Brand 82 $1,700
Dorzolamide Hcl Generic 49 $1,407
Timolol Maleate Generic 21 $212

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 · 10 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$29,747

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

185

Average age 79

Services billed

765

107 women, 78 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 73%
Arthritis 57%
Diabetes 27%
Ischemic heart disease 27%
Chronic kidney disease 24%
Osteoporosis 21%
Cancer 19%
Atrial fibrillation 18%

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.

Records

134 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

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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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