RxDoctor Payments Data

Kelton Wigington, MD

Ophthalmology · Rock Hill, SCNPI 1679914212

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.9%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. at 58.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,660 and has fallen 87.8% since, to $1,179 in 2025. Among ophthalmology clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$15,097in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 184 payments — averaging $82.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$9K
  • Alcon$2K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$551
  • AbbVie$535
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$309
  • plus $1K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$8,58757%
  • Travel & lodging$1,1147%
  • Food & beverage$5,29335%
  • Other$1031%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$15,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$364,683
Medicare patients
1,154
Services billed
3,239

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
XiidraLifitegrast64$46,227
RestasisCyclosporine45$35,097
Cyclosporine24$7,464
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart25$7,393
CequaCyclosporine13$7,194
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate18$6,083
CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol23$5,774
Prednisolone Acetate150$5,650
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod14$5,604
Travoprost23$4,165
Latanoprost342$3,525
Fluorometholone24$2,426
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat86$2,368
Timolol Maleate209$1,734
Brimonidine Tartrate158$1,565

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta$1,041$51,83178 claims
AbbVieRestasis, Combigan$535$40,87168 claims
AlconSimbrinza$2,467$7,39325 claims
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.Cequa$309$7,19413 claims
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa$97$6,08318 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 90th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South Carolina.

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