Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-06-30 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

BABU PONAKALA

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Ophthalmology

NPI
1457432742
CMS profile
111634
Location
CHICAGO, IL

General Payments · PY2019–2025

$2,779.73

  • Reported across 124 records
  • CMS publication 2026-06-30

Latest program year · PY2025

$820.90

25 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $820.90 25

By paying entity

PY2025 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2019 $111.33 6
PY2020 $52.28 3
PY2021 $395.76 35
PY2022 $500.25 17
PY2023 $630.05 23
PY2024 $269.16 15
PY2025 $820.90 25

Payment records · PY2025 (25)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2025 201920202021202220232024 Record-level detail is published for PY2025; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Alcon Vision LLC $30.29 02/04/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491094 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $21.56 04/22/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491130 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $13.28 04/24/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491096 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $19.39 04/29/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491098 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $16.81 05/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491128 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $14.97 05/19/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491140 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $6.54 05/30/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491108 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $28.01 07/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491126 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $16.40 07/24/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491152 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $22.11 07/31/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491164 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $7.29 09/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491188 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $16.40 09/18/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491176 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $27.19 10/21/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491180 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $108.07 10/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491236 CMS
Alcon Vision LLC $2.82 12/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1207491216 CMS
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $16.12 03/27/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1253190216 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $16.83 03/25/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254746631 CMS
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $17.22 09/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1254746633 CMS
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. $31.90 05/06/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1173810277 CMS
Sight Sciences, Inc. $5.42 03/13/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1244652932 CMS
Sight Sciences, Inc. $232.94 04/17/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1244651892 CMS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $23.93 07/15/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1233895910 CMS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $11.37 08/28/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1233895912 CMS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $8.74 10/07/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1233895914 CMS
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $105.30 11/05/2025 Food and Beverage Undisputed 06/30/2026 1233895916 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-06-30
Program years on this page
2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024 , PY2025
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2025_P06302026_06032026.csv

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