John Kitchens, MD
Retina Specialist · Lexington, KYNPI 1972503993
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,059 payments — averaging $2713.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Genentech, Inc.$1.6M
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$350K
- Genentech USA, Inc.$201K
- Alcon$184K
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$112K
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$85K
- plus $348K from 27 others
Across 9 payments — averaging $1057.77 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$9K
- Regeneron$194
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.
How this compares
$2,873,982 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
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- Blake IsernhagenLexington$183K
- Ricky IsernhagenLexington$147K
- Leanne ClevengerLexington$27K
- William WoodLexington$23K
- Romulo AlbuquerqueLexington$20K
- Todd PurkissLexington$11K
- Belinda ShirkeyLexington$11K
- Aaron RiccaLexington$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.