Kerry Solomon, MD
Ophthalmology · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1881608024
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,430 payments — averaging $3205.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon Research LLC$1.4M
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$1.2M
- Carl Zeiss Meditec Digital Innovations LLC$964K
- Rxsight Inc$449K
- Alcon$422K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$131K
- plus $74K from 12 others
Across 59 payments — averaging $890.03 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Rxsight Inc$33K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$19K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,640,89594%
- Speaking & faculty fees$25,5011%
- Travel & lodging$43,0082%
- Food & beverage$17,0581%
- Education$2,2500%
- Gifts$11,6831%
- Entertainment$1060%
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 | 824 | $1,381,090 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 63 | $1,164,503 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec Digital Innovations LLC | 25 | $963,783 |
| Rxsight Inc | 144 | $449,159 |
| Alcon | 223 | $421,566 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 53 | $130,691 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 29 | $58,861 |
| Lensar, Inc. | 7 | $8,294 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $3,000 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 24 | $1,649 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $363 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 5 | $358 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 19 | $354 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 4 | $323 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 2 | $271 |
| Omeros Corporation | 2 | $134 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 3 | $57 |
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.
- VERACITY SURGICAL$979,433
- Clareon$181,607
- Centurion$166,407
- Wavelight Refractive Suite$136,043
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix$92,297
- IOLMaster 700$61,099
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY$57,900
- CIRRUS HD-OCT$55,500
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY IOL$47,487
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$41,192
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$41,192
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$41,192
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$41,192
- RXSIGHT LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (RXLAL)$40,956
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$40,106
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$40,000
- VisuMax$38,625
- Cataract Suite$36,938
- OPMI Lumera 700$32,626
- AcrySof$28,280
How this compares
$4,584,541 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 293 ophthalmology providers in South 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 11 | $2,437 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 39 | $1,970 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 30 | $1,095 |
| Ofloxacin | 38 | $555 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Mt Pleasant
- George WaringMt Pleasant$1M
- Elizabeth SharpeMt Pleasant$157K
- Erik HappMt Pleasant$124K
- John GrossMt Pleasant$11K
- John WellsWest Columbia$7.1M
- William ClarkWest Columbia$6.2M
- Daniel AlfaroCharleston$4.6M
- Eric JablonCharleston$1.2M
- John KerrisonCharleston$975K
- Karolinne RochaCharleston$799K
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.