Keith Walter, MD
Ophthalmology · Winston Salem, NCNPI 1518940220
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 440 payments — averaging $1325.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$261K
- Omeros Corporation$255K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$22K
- Glaukos Corporation$17K
- Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited$11K
- Novartis$5K
- plus $11K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$256,27865%
- Speaking & faculty fees$99,07425%
- Travel & lodging$26,1257%
- Food & beverage$15,5104%
- Entertainment$140%
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. | 233 | $261,041 |
| Omeros Corporation | 62 | $255,130 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 42 | $21,784 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 28 | $17,109 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 7 | $11,463 |
| Novartis | 5 | $5,011 |
| Amgen | 2 | $2,043 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $1,608 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $1,561 |
| Oculus, Inc. | 1 | $1,500 |
| Lensar, Inc. | 1 | $1,300 |
| Staar Surgical Company | 14 | $716 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 7 | $456 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 6 | $428 |
| Alcon | 2 | $309 |
| Rxsight Inc | 3 | $299 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 4 | $283 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $171 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $142 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $116 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $112 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $106 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| Quidel Corporation | 2 | $74 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $34 |
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.
- Catalys Laser System$90,173
- Compact Intuitiv$84,508
- IFS ADVANCED FEMTOSEC LASER$84,508
- INTRALASE FS FEMTOSEC LASER$84,508
- OMIDRIA$78,650
- COMPACT INTUITIV Phacofragmentation System$74,888
- Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$35,125
- Tecnis 1-piece IOL$21,471
- Tecnis IOL$18,390
- BROMSITE$16,319
- Tecnis Symfony IOL$14,857
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$14,006
- Tecnis Simplicity$12,957
- CATALYS SYSTEM$12,755
- Tecnis 3-piece IOL$11,948
- Tecnis Toric 1-piece IOL$11,012
- Tecnis Symphony IOL$10,170
- Tecnis Symphony Toric IOL$10,170
- TearScience Lipiflow System$9,000
- XIIDRA$6,525
How this compares
$583,000 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 34 | $26,512 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 79 | $3,124 |
| Bromfenac Sodium | 12 | $1,902 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 25 | $1,516 |
| Fluorometholone | 16 | $1,107 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 12 | $169 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 14 | $157 |
| Latanoprost | 16 | $117 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Winston Salem
- Rajiv ShahWinston Salem$1.3M
- Craig GrevenWinston Salem$359K
- Vishak JohnWinston Salem$169K
- Jiaxi DingWinston Salem$43K
- Glenn JaffeDurham$38.5M
- Lejla VajzovicDurham$7.5M
- Andrew AntoszykCharlotte$4M
- Majda HadziahmetovicDurham$2.4M
- Preeya GuptaRaleigh$2M
- Thomas WilliamsHickory$1.8M
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.