Has Stephen Phipps, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,460 in general payments to Stephen Phipps, MD across 5 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 Stephen Phipps, 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 Stephen Phipps, 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.

Stephen Phipps, MD

Ophthalmology · St Johnsbury, VTNPI 1649265497

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,215 of the $1,460 with a category attached, or 83.2%. Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. accounts for 98.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest.

$1,460in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $291.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$1K
Beaver-visitec International, Inc.$25

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,21583%
Food & beverage$24517%

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
Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.	3	$1,435
Beaver-visitec International, Inc.	2	$25

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

$1,460 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 35 ophthalmology providers in Vermont.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$633,641

Medicare patients

801

Services billed

2,999

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
Latanoprost	153	$1,879
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	99	$1,684
Timolol Maleate	70	$1,428
Prednisolone Acetate	24	$983
Brimonidine Tartrate	39	$854
Dorzolamide Hcl	15	$240

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other ophthalmology in St Johnsbury

Christopher ConnorWindsor$187K
Shaunak BakshiSouth Burlington$4K
John HinkleSouth Burlington$4K
Jonathan ManhardSouth Burlington$2K
Jillian KaplitaMiddlebury$1K
Praveen KeshavaRutland$360
Chantal BoisvertBurlington$324
Miranda RenfrowSaint Johnsbury$313
David TerrellBrattleboro$259
Robert AustinBrattleboro$156

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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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