John Winkler, MD
Ophthalmology · Des Plaines, ILNPI 1659314375
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 204 payments — averaging $44.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Alcon$2K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$448
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$437
- Amgen$418
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$381
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,45216%
- Food & beverage$7,61584%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 82 | $3,151 |
| Alcon | 26 | $2,290 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $448 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $437 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 19 | $418 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $381 |
| Novartis | 10 | $321 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 6 | $309 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 8 | $232 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $225 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $128 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $122 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 2 | $74 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- OZURDEX$752
- Rhopressa$332
- Rocklatan$332
- Clareon$287
- CEQUA$232
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$230
- AcrySof$148
- Hydrus Microstent$129
- Clareon PanOptix Pro$127
- MIEBO$125
- VYZULTA$124
- LUMIGAN$123
- OMNI$121
- Oxervate$120
- Tecnis IOL$118
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$117
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$117
- EYLEA$116
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix$114
- XIIDRA$112
How this compares
$9,067 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 99 | $58,436 |
| Restasis MultidoseCyclosporine | 20 | $14,958 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 19 | $8,176 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 176 | $5,407 |
| Cyclosporine | 16 | $4,949 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 11 | $4,838 |
| Latanoprost | 347 | $4,642 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 16 | $3,969 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 189 | $3,169 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 14 | $2,834 |
| Ofloxacin | 165 | $1,564 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 57 | $979 |
| Timolol Maleate | 77 | $826 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 22 | $701 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 37 | $473 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis Multidose, Combigan | $3,151 | $81,570138 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta | $381 | $4,83811 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $2,290 | $3,96916 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 80th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.
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.