Has Kimberly Estes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,096 in general payments to Kimberly Estes, MD across 29 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 Kimberly Estes, 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 Kimberly Estes, 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.

Kimberly Estes, MD

Ophthalmology · Glen Ellyn, ILNPI 1386038719

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,096in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $37.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$375
Glaukos Corporation$218
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$127
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$127
AbbVie$102
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$73
plus $75 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,096100%

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
Alcon	9	$375
Glaukos Corporation	2	$218
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	5	$127
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	6	$127
AbbVie	1	$102
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$73
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$45
NEW World Medical,inc.	1	$18
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$13

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

$1,096 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$161,599

Medicare patients

329

Services billed

1,270

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
Prednisolone Acetate	138	$4,184
Ketorolac Tromethamine	90	$3,640
Brimonidine Tartrate	17	$3,526
Latanoprost	240	$2,200
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl	100	$1,681
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	62	$1,085
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	16	$886
Dorzolamide Hcl	27	$368
Timolol Maleate	25	$261
ErythromycinErythromycin Base	18	$181

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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