Desiree Wheeler, OD
Optometrist · Kodiak, AKNPI 1609351022
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,975 of the $3,240 with a category attached, or 60.9%. Alcon accounts for 74.2% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,615 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $34 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in AK with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 19 payments — averaging $170.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Optos, Inc.$305
- Novartis$215
- Lumenis BE Inc$117
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$76
- Lumibird Medical Inc.$57
- plus $66 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,97561%
- Food & beverage$1,04732%
- Entertainment$2187%
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 | 6 | $2,403 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $305 |
| Novartis | 2 | $215 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $117 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $76 |
| Lumibird Medical Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- AIR OPTIX$2,335
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$2,335
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$2,335
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$436
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$436
- NFC-700$218
- DUREZOL$125
- optilight$117
How this compares
$3,240 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 163 optometrist providers in Alaska.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 27 | $16,970 |
| Cyclosporine | 30 | $13,905 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 14 | $6,239 |
| Travoprost | 39 | $3,564 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 18 | $1,904 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 30 | $884 |
| Latanoprost | 75 | $728 |
| Timolol Maleate | 29 | $297 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 18 | $219 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 20 | $45 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Kodiak
- Andrea EberleAnchorage$10K
- David KarpikKenai$7K
- Steven DobsonAnchorage$6K
- Herbert WentzienAnchorage$5K
- Kathleen RiceKenai$5K
- Nhan TranAnchorage$5K
- Bethany BeckerAnchorage$5K
- Amber MayberryWasilla$4K
- Elizabeth BowAnchorage$4K
- Anthony MakarAnchorage$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.