Who Paid My Doc
Joel Palko
Glaucoma Specialist Morgantown, WV Medical Doctor
NPI 1467871012 CMS profile 1381555
1 Medical Center Dr, Morgantown, WV 26506
General payments
$900
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Joel Palko of Morgantown, WV is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $900 across 21 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.
General payments for this record sit in the 21st percentile of Glaucoma Specialist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
7 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $71 | 2 | |
| 2024 | General | $62 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $120 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $23 | 1 | |
| 2021 | General | $226 | 5 | |
| 2020 | General | $72 | 3 | |
| 2019 | General | $326 | 7 |
Beside peers
- Joel Palko
- Glaucoma Specialist median
- Middle half of Glaucoma Specialist
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Joel Palko were reported at $71. Among 370 Glaucoma Specialist profiles paid that year, the median was $597 and the middle half received between $244 and $1,607.
Show as a table
| Year | Joel Palko | Glaucoma Specialist median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $326 | $433 | $150–$1,170 | $163 |
| 2020 | $72 | $242 | $74–$693 | $114 |
| 2021 | $226 | $324 | $122–$936 | $132 |
| 2022 | $23 | $399 | $121–$1,081 | $149 |
| 2023 | $120 | $458 | $190–$1,208 | $160 |
| 2024 | $62 | $558 | $215–$1,359 | $164 |
| 2025 | $71 | $597 | $244–$1,607 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 18 drugsPart D claims
2,108
Drug cost
$110,286
Branded share of claims
27.9%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rhopressa Netarsudil Mesylate | Brand | 54 | $21,255 | |
| Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | Brand | 39 | $16,686 | |
| Lumigan Bimatoprost | Brand | 24 | $12,244 | |
| Alphagan P Brimonidine Tartrate | Brand | 40 | $10,994 | |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-Timolol Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | Brand | 39 | $6,681 | |
| Travoprost | Generic | 24 | $6,396 | |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | Generic | 329 | $6,356 | |
| Dorzolamide-Timolol Dorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | Brand | 368 | $6,154 | |
| Latanoprost | Generic | 537 | $5,264 | |
| Prednisolone Acetate | Generic | 158 | $4,866 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 18 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 18,260 Part D prescribers listed as Ophthalmology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 37 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$91,966
Medicare patients
315
Services billed
1,545
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Arthritis | 52% | |
| Diabetes | 34% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 32% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 24% | |
| Depression | 22% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 21% | |
| COPD | 19% |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
21 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.