Joan Kim
Ophthalmology · Des Plaines, ILNPI 1609049279
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 21 payments — averaging $95.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$932
- Alcon$350
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$207
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$126
- Dompe US, Inc.$123
- Amgen$114
- plus $145 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$93247%
- Food & beverage$1,06553%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $932 |
| Alcon | 5 | $350 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 2 | $207 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Amgen | 2 | $114 |
| Novartis | 3 | $53 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $30 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 1 | $23 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $10 |
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.
- Tecnis Symfony IOL$932
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY$149
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$126
- DEXYCU$125
- Oxervate$123
- Clareon$110
How this compares
$1,997 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 21 | $2,862 |
| Difluprednate | 20 | $2,573 |
| Fluorometholone | 42 | $2,540 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 52 | $1,182 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 16 | $705 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 22 | $427 |
| Latanoprost | 71 | $316 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 13 | $313 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 17 | $253 |
| Timolol Maleate | 15 | $42 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Des Plaines
- James KatzDes Plaines$708K
- Veeral ShethOak Forest$14.8M
- Seenu HariprasadChicago$2.3M
- Lisa NijmSpringfield$1.9M
- Manjot GillChicago$1.4M
- Mitchell JacksonLake Villa$1.4M
- Ramanath BhandariSpringfield$1.2M
- Kathleen MornoNorth Riverside$1.2M
- Amani FawziChicago$864K
- Navaneet Chailert BorisuthRock Island$737K
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.