RxDoctor Payments Data

Nelson Winkler, MD

Ophthalmology · Marquette, MINPI 1740669944

Payments from drug & device makers

$687in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 22 payments — averaging $31.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$219
  • Alcon$128
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$110
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$65
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$55
  • NEW World Medical,inc.$39
  • plus $71 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$67097%
  • Education$173%

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

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25

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.

How this compares

$687 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 674 ophthalmology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,387,757
Medicare patients
473
Services billed
5,753

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost49$19,946
LumiganBimatoprost26$13,024
Prednisolone Acetate273$10,736
RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate25$10,461
SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart25$6,681
Latanoprost270$4,969
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol16$4,928
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat188$4,297
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate19$3,913
Ketorolac Tromethamine212$3,306
Brimonidine Tartrate80$3,254
Bromfenac Sodium12$3,217
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl46$3,133
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide/Timolol/Pf13$2,504
Ofloxacin162$2,083

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.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieLumigan, Alphagan P$219$16,93745 claims
AlconSimbrinza$128$6,68125 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 40th percentile of 674 ophthalmology providers in Michigan.

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