Has Alexander Foster, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,985 in general payments to Alexander Foster, MD across 44 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alexander Foster, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alexander Foster, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alexander Foster, MD

Ophthalmology · Green Bay, WINPI 1992233662

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.8%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 51.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,834 and has fallen 89.1% since, to $200 in 2025.

$2,985in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $67.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
Alcon$898
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$234
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$113
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$105
Rxsight Inc$29
plus $56 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,42148%
Food & beverage$1,54752%
Entertainment$171%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	16	$1,550
Alcon	11	$898
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	2	$234
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	6	$113
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	5	$105
Rxsight Inc	1	$29
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$25
Optos, Inc.	1	$17
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	1	$14

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

STELLARIS PC$1,193
CRYSTALENS$1,193
AKREOS AO$1,193
ENVISTA$1,193
TRULIGN TORIC$1,193
Clareon$387
ARGOS$245
Centurion$245
AcrySof IQ PanOptix$130
Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$124
Tecnis Symfony IOL$124
Clareon PanOptix Pro$119
Tecnis Toric 1-piece IOL$110
NGENUITY$101

How this compares

$2,985 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 337 ophthalmology providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$279,719

Medicare patients

512

Services billed

1,735

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
RestasisCyclosporine	12	$17,294
LumiganBimatoprost	16	$8,902
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate	18	$7,309
Prednisolone Acetate	85	$3,048
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	15	$2,863
Latanoprost	181	$2,205
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	78	$1,805
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	26	$274
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	11	$252
Diclofenac Sodium	17	$191
Timolol Maleate	32	$189

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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