Christopher Hwang, MD
Ophthalmology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1477973113
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 6 payments — averaging $36.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$79
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$76
- Amgen$66
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$220100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 1 | $79 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 4 | $76 |
| Amgen | 1 | $66 |
How this compares
$220 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 286 ophthalmology providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 218 | $10,973 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 131 | $2,484 |
| Ofloxacin | 107 | $1,252 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 19 | $1,170 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 34 | $678 |
| Prednisone | 28 | $458 |
| Atropine Sulfate | 14 | $377 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 27 | $375 |
| Timolol Maleate | 32 | $340 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 12 | $230 |
| Latanoprost | 16 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Saint Louis
- Steven CouchSaint Louis$1.2M
- Ranjan MalhotraSaint Louis$964K
- Navin TekwaniSaint Louis$957K
- Gregg BerdySaint Louis$740K
- Sonya BambaSaint Louis$242K
- Harris SultanSaint Louis$156K
- Rajendra ApteSaint Louis$143K
- Ian PithaSaint Louis$113K
- Anjali BhoradeSaint Louis$73K
- Praneetha ThulasiSaint Louis$65K
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.