Keith Carlson, MD
Ophthalmology · Burnsville, MNNPI 1679548879
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,214 of the $4,439 with a category attached, or 72.4%. AbbVie accounts for 72.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,121, 3.8 times the $297 reported in 2019.
Across 53 payments — averaging $83.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$3K
- Alcon$789
- Rxsight Inc$163
- Glaukos Corporation$130
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$106
- Carl Zeiss Meditec AG$19
- plus $17 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,21472%
- Travel & lodging$120%
- Food & beverage$1,19427%
- Gifts$190%
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) | 26 | $3,214 |
| Alcon | 20 | $789 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $163 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $130 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Lensar, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
| Iridex Corporation | 1 | $8 |
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.
How this compares
$4,439 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 330 ophthalmology providers in Minnesota.
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 | 35 | $37,997 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 302 | $12,101 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 21 | $6,838 |
| Travoprost | 27 | $5,682 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 262 | $4,441 |
| Latanoprost | 181 | $3,522 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 14 | $3,478 |
| Ofloxacin | 221 | $2,947 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 18 | $2,673 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 12 | $1,978 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 55 | $1,743 |
| Timolol Maleate | 59 | $1,301 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 45 | $627 |
| Bacitracin-PolymyxinBacitracin/Polymyxin B Sulfate | 12 | $133 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 14 | $98 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan | $3,214 | $44,83556 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 330 ophthalmology providers in Minnesota.
Other ophthalmology in Burnsville
- Edwin RyanMinneapolis$9.6M
- Mark LobanoffSt Louis Park$6.3M
- Richard LindstromBloomington$5.6M
- Thomas SamuelsonMinnetonka$435K
- Deborah RistvedtAlexandria$392K
- Yun-Sen ChuBloomington$222K
- Sophie BakriRochester$183K
- David HardtenMinneapolis$119K
- John ChenRochester$82K
- Christine LarsenBloomington$70K
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.