Katherine Ochsner, MD
Ophthalmology · Wilmington, NCNPI 1104917657
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 116 payments — averaging $126.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon Research LLC$8K
- Ivantis, Inc$4K
- AbbVie$717
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$467
- Alcon$388
- NEW World Medical,inc.$359
- plus $391 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,28898%
- Gifts$452%
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 Research LLC | 3 | $8,100 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 2 | $4,211 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $717 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 38 | $467 |
| Alcon | 21 | $388 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 13 | $359 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $154 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $55 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $14 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Akorn, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- XEN$258
- Kahook Dual Blade$145
- Clearpath$145
- Ahmed Glaucoma Valve$145
- Streamline$145
How this compares
$14,633 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.
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 | 222 | $110,226 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 65 | $73,605 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 172 | $71,163 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 146 | $64,243 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 173 | $60,377 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 181 | $55,244 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 106 | $43,807 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 85 | $30,083 |
| Brinzolamide | 115 | $29,688 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 110 | $20,025 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 427 | $17,842 |
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 23 | $17,135 |
| AzoptBrinzolamide | 30 | $14,727 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 211 | $13,788 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf | 71 | $12,819 |
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, Combigan, Alphagan P | $717 | $278,158518 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan, Rhopressa | $55 | $114,970278 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Miebo, Xiidra | $467 | $90,041214 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza, Azopt | $388 | $69,970211 claims |
| Akorn, Inc.Zioptan | $11 | $12,68137 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa, Lotemax Sm, Loteprednol Etabonate | $40 | $12,25047 claims |
| Thea Pharma Inc.Iyuzeh | $32 | $8,84930 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 85th percentile of 588 ophthalmology providers in North Carolina.
Other ophthalmology in Wilmington
- Clark SpringsWilmington$300K
- Leon CharkoudianWilmington$112K
- Robert van der VaartWilmington$50K
- Glenn JaffeDurham$38.5M
- Lejla VajzovicDurham$7.5M
- Andrew AntoszykCharlotte$4M
- Majda HadziahmetovicDurham$2.4M
- Preeya GuptaRaleigh$2M
- Thomas WilliamsHickory$1.8M
- James HarrisHickory$1.4M
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.