Has Matthew Ward, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,376 in general payments to Matthew Ward, MD across 22 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 Matthew Ward, 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 Matthew Ward, 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.

Matthew Ward, MD

Ophthalmology · Iowa City, IANPI 1023251881

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (37.6%), charitable contributions and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Microsurgical Technology, Inc. at 36.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,138 and has fallen 53.9% since, to $986 in 2025.

$4,376in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $198.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Microsurgical Technology, Inc.$2K
Lumenis BE Inc$849
Digital Diagnostics Inc.$700
Rxsight Inc$426
Merakris Therapeutics, Inc.$396
Alcon$134
plus $276 from 6 others

$9,600in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $3200.00 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$10K

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$70016%
Speaking & faculty fees$43510%
Food & beverage$1,64638%
Charitable contribution$1,59536%

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
Microsurgical Technology, Inc.	2	$1,595
Lumenis BE Inc	1	$849
Digital Diagnostics Inc.	1	$700
Rxsight Inc	7	$426
Merakris Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$396
Alcon	1	$134
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$90
Glaukos Corporation	3	$84
Boston Scientific	1	$34
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$33
Johnson & Johnson	1	$21
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14

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

$4,376 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 172 ophthalmology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$301,467

Medicare patients

362

Services billed

1,316

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
OxervateCenegermin-Bkbj	12	$560,284
RestasisCyclosporine	26	$21,724
Fluorometholone	150	$12,170
Prednisolone Acetate	152	$6,663
LumiganBimatoprost	11	$6,558
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate	14	$4,411
Doxycycline Monohydrate	192	$3,752
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	41	$1,887
Latanoprost	154	$1,698
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	48	$1,370
Difluprednate	12	$1,335
Acyclovir	76	$1,310
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	39	$739
Timolol Maleate	49	$424
Doxycycline Hyclate	18	$401

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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