Belinda Shirkey, MD
Retina Specialist · Lexington, KYNPI 1275574287
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,554 of the $10,554 with a category attached, or 62.1%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. at 37.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,942 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $573 in 2025.
Across 151 payments — averaging $69.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$4K
- Alcon$1K
- Optos, Inc.$1K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$631
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$481
- plus $2K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,00038%
- Food & beverage$6,55462%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $4,000 |
| Alcon | 14 | $1,329 |
| Optos, Inc. | 8 | $1,186 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 40 | $1,022 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 17 | $631 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $481 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 12 | $430 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $402 |
| Novartis | 16 | $385 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 8 | $160 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $132 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $123 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Biogen | 4 | $74 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $20 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Clarus 700$4,000
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$1,662
- Constellation$881
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$831
- NFC-700$831
- VABYSMO$399
- EYLEA$391
- Syfovre$251
- Luxor$149
- NGENUITY$148
- OZURDEX$102
- P200DTx$100
- P200T$100
- P200TE$100
- P200TxE$100
How this compares
$10,554 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 22 retina specialist providers in Kentucky.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Difluprednate | 36 | $2,622 |
| Acetazolamide ErAcetazolamide | 13 | $2,373 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 29 | $1,570 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 86 | $876 |
| Timolol Maleate | 19 | $818 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 75 | $678 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 19 | $295 |
| Latanoprost | 14 | $120 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 13 | $72 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other retina specialist in Lexington
- John KitchensLexington$1.1M
- Blake IsernhagenLexington$183K
- Miguel BusquetsLexington$92K
- Romulo AlbuquerqueLexington$20K
- Leanne ClevengerLexington$17K
- Todd PurkissLexington$11K
- Ricky IsernhagenLexington$5K
- Aaron RiccaLexington$5K
- William WoodLexington$5K
- Osama SabbaghLexington$4K
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.