Has Vernon Wong, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,100 in general payments to Vernon Wong, MD across 23 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 Vernon Wong, 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 Vernon Wong, 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.

Vernon Wong, MD

Ophthalmology · Honolulu, HINPI 1164572517

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,100in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 23 payments — averaging $91.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$384
Amgen$265
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$243
Genentech USA, Inc.$202
Novartis$133
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$125
plus $748 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$2,100100%

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
Alcon	3	$384
Amgen	2	$265
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$243
Genentech USA, Inc.	5	$202
Novartis	2	$133
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$125
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$124
AbbVie	2	$116
Dompe US, Inc.	1	$114
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$112
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$104
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$96
Hoffmann-la Roche Limited	1	$81

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

$2,100 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 120 ophthalmology providers in Hawaii.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$131,868

Medicare patients

279

Services billed

1,842

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
Brimonidine Tartrate	32	$2,863
Timolol Maleate	55	$2,473
Prednisolone Acetate	45	$1,592
Latanoprost	78	$1,339
Difluprednate	13	$1,131
Ketorolac Tromethamine	23	$455
Dorzolamide Hcl	13	$279
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	12	$149
Polymyxin B Sul-TrimethoprimPolymyxin B Sulf/Trimethoprim	12	$143

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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