Kristin Minkowski, MD
Ophthalmology · Spring, TXNPI 1497109474
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 130 payments — averaging $30.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Alcon$575
- Glaukos Corporation$282
- Amgen$223
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$190
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$152
- plus $945 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,002100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 67 | $1,636 |
| Alcon | 9 | $575 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 3 | $282 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 10 | $223 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $190 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $152 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $118 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $116 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 2 | $108 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Novartis | 3 | $69 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 3 | $60 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $20 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Centurion$375
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$254
- iStent Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$149
- ALPHAGAN P$125
- LUMIGAN$125
- Hydrus$118
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$116
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$116
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$116
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$116
- LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$116
- STELLARIS$109
- CRYSTALENS$109
- ENVISTA$109
- OZURDEX$103
How this compares
$4,002 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 443 | $226,545 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 138 | $55,081 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 111 | $54,414 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 35 | $43,741 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 83 | $30,884 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 63 | $30,586 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 55 | $28,311 |
| ProlensaBromfenac Sodium | 67 | $21,888 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 125 | $18,068 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 12 | $17,849 |
| Latanoprost | 1,645 | $17,508 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 354 | $16,404 |
| Brinzolamide | 74 | $14,857 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 752 | $11,049 |
| Cyclosporine | 24 | $10,230 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Combigan, Restasis, Alphagan P | $1,636 | $355,953679 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan | $23 | $82,726166 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta, Xiidra | $63 | $48,73395 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCProlensa | $190 | $21,88867 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $575 | $7,64327 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 65th percentile of 1,355 ophthalmology providers in Texas.
Other ophthalmology in Spring
- Charles WykoffBellaire$73.4M
- David BrownHouston$51.7M
- Sunil PatelAbilene$11.1M
- Chirag JhaveriAustin$9.4M
- Robert WongAustin$6.6M
- Fuad MakkoukAustin$6.6M
- Patrick WilliamsArlington$6.6M
- Ashkan AbbeyDallas$5.7M
- Karl CsakyDallas$4.9M
- Michael SingerSan Antonio$4.2M
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.