RxDoctor Payments Data

Wendewessen Amde, MD

Ophthalmology · Chicago, ILNPI 1386837474

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,691in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 86 payments — averaging $19.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$507
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$269
  • Alimera Sciences, Inc.$230
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$184
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$176
  • Alcon$88
  • plus $236 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,67699%
  • Education$151%

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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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

$1,691 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,644,489
Medicare patients
1,018
Services billed
10,617

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
Brimonidine Tartrate134$10,884
LumiganBimatoprost19$8,442
Prednisolone Acetate182$7,547
Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate18$4,970
Ketorolac Tromethamine205$4,197
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat156$2,911
Latanoprost220$2,283
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol13$1,838
Atropine Sulfate41$1,222
Dorzolamide Hcl40$622
Timolol Maleate21$504
MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl23$480
Ciprofloxacin Hcl37$462

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$507$13,41237 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 55th percentile of 773 ophthalmology providers in Illinois.

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