Has Kenneth Ellis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $240 in general payments to Kenneth Ellis, MD across 5 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kenneth Ellis, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kenneth Ellis, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kenneth Ellis, MD

Ophthalmology · Anacortes, WANPI 1215981022

Payments from drug & device makers

$240in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $48.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$120
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$58
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG$39
Alcon$24

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$20284%
Gifts$3916%

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
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$120
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.	1	$58
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG	2	$39
Alcon	1	$24

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.

EYLEA$120

How this compares

$240 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 428 ophthalmology providers in Washington.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$1,419,788

Medicare patients

1,789

Services billed

23,283

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
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate	38	$15,316
Latanoprost	640	$8,493
Brimonidine Tartrate	134	$3,792
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	167	$3,375
Brinzolamide	12	$2,636
Prednisolone Acetate	82	$2,459
Travoprost	12	$2,357
Timolol Maleate	166	$1,869
Dorzolamide Hcl	30	$728
Ketorolac Tromethamine	48	$670
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	35	$421

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in Anacortes

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Todd SchneidermanSilverdale$602K
Sheldon CowenSeattle$560K
Todd KlesertBellevue$506K
Jason JonesSpokane$386K
David SpinakSilverdale$351K
Jay RuddPuyallup$291K
Raghu MudumbaiSeattle$284K
David SapersteinBellevue$235K

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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.

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