Ula Jurkunas, MD
Ophthalmology · Boston, MANPI 1386634699
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,950 of the $2,678 with a category attached, or 72.8%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by Kowa Research Institute, Inc. at 48.5% of the total.
Across 5 payments — averaging $535.65 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$1K
- Beaver-visitec International, Inc.$650
- Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.$533
- Ziemer USA$195
Across 13 payments — averaging $5136.01 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.
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$67K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,95073%
- Speaking & faculty fees$53320%
- Food & beverage$1957%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kowa Research Institute, Inc. | 2 | $1,300 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $650 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $533 |
| Ziemer USA | 1 | $195 |
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.
- FEMTOLDV$195
How this compares
$2,678 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 653 ophthalmology providers in Massachusetts.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 20 | $13,436 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 203 | $8,766 |
| LotemaxLoteprednol Etabonate | 14 | $8,255 |
| Fluorometholone | 104 | $7,131 |
| Difluprednate | 18 | $3,912 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 14 | $1,740 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 14 | $1,199 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 57 | $1,154 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 72 | $1,081 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 23 | $1,016 |
| Acyclovir | 31 | $564 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 27 | $477 |
| Timolol Maleate | 21 | $256 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other ophthalmology in Boston
- Rishi SinghBoston$1.7M
- Adam RogersBoston$316K
- Bonnie HendersonBoston$279K
- Dean EliottBoston$250K
- Mina FarahaniBoston$227K
- Jia YinBoston$173K
- John MillerBoston$106K
- Elizabeth RossinBoston$101K
- Suzanne FreitagBoston$96K
- Nimesh PatelBoston$94K
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.