Device Optics

Whitestar Phaco Handpiece

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Whitestar Phaco Handpiece. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$8,353associated payments (2023-2025)
27clinicians with associated payments
2companies reporting

By year

2023 $2,784
2024 $4,219
2025 $1,350

Payments reported as associated with Whitestar Phaco Handpiece, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Ophthalmology $8,098
Optometrist $133
Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Disease $45.00
Emergency Medicine $40.00
Retina Specialist $36.48

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Whitestar Phaco Handpiece

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Whitestar Phaco Handpiece. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Shachar Tauber Springfield, MO Ophthalmology $7,256.25
Eugene De Juan San Francisco, CA Ophthalmology $191.01
Anne Fung San Francisco, CA Ophthalmology $135.87
Luke Barker Killeen, TX Ophthalmology $58.39
Michael Gilbert Bellevue, WA Ophthalmology $51.31
Jason Ehrlich Stanford, CA Ophthalmology $48.75
Quan Nguyen Stanford, CA Uveitis and Ocular Inflammatory Disease $45.00
Karan Patel Bellevue, WA Ophthalmology $40.50
Coleen Palileo Bellevue, WA Ophthalmology $40.50
Robert Kim Emeryville, CA Emergency Medicine $40.00

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.