Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Karl Waite

Ophthalmology Daytona Beach, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1598902579 CMS profile 254157

529 Health Blvd, Daytona Beach, FL 32114

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General payments

$11,156

209 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$73,059

6 holdings reported · through program year 2025

Through program year 2025, Karl Waite of Daytona Beach, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $11,156 across 209 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $73,059 across 6 holdings.

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 89th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

13 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $1,563 43
2024 General $2,416 43
2023 General $1,261 34
2022 General $2,372 31
2021 General $1,461 27
2020 General $743 15
2019 General $1,341 16
2024 Ownership $19,863 1
2023 Ownership $19,863 1
2022 Ownership $8,333 1
2021 Ownership $8,333 1
2020 Ownership $8,333 1
2019 Ownership $8,333 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Karl Waite
  • Ophthalmology median
  • Middle half of Ophthalmology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Karl Waite were reported at $1,563. Among 13,034 Ophthalmology profiles paid that year, the median was $384 and the middle half received between $136 and $917.

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Year Karl Waite Ophthalmology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,341 $258 $104–$655 $163
2020 $743 $126 $45–$321 $114
2021 $1,461 $205 $76–$534 $132
2022 $2,372 $266 $100–$678 $149
2023 $1,261 $308 $117–$745 $160
2024 $2,416 $340 $127–$846 $164
2025 $1,563 $384 $136–$917 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. US Retina LLC $3,468 5 payments
  2. Alimera Sciences, Inc. $2,428 42 payments
  3. Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $1,293 52 payments
  4. Astellas Pharma US Inc $1,002 24 payments
  5. Genentech USA, Inc. $680 19 payments
  6. AbbVie, Inc. $587 25 payments
  7. Alcon Vision LLC $392 3 payments
  8. Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $299 15 payments
  9. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $231 6 payments
  10. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $205 2 payments
  11. Other $572 16 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $6,298 203 payments
  2. Current or prospective ownership or investment interest $3,468 5 payments
  3. Honoraria $1,390 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. YUTIQ $1,651 9 payments
  2. ILUVIEN treatment of diabetic macular edema in patients who have been previously treated with corticosteroid $1,631 9 payments
  3. EYLEA $918 39 payments
  4. Izervay $840 21 payments
  5. ILUVIEN Ophthalmology $745 34 payments
  6. EYLEA HD $653 25 payments
  7. OZURDEX $480 19 payments
  8. VABYSMO $396 14 payments
  9. SUSVIMO $298 5 payments
  10. Constellation $281 2 payments
  11. Other $1,599 41 payments

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 · 13 drugs

Part D claims

927

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$1,150,409

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

62.7%

Median for Ophthalmology: 29.7%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Eylea Aflibercept Brand 179 $455,100
Vabysmo Faricimab-Svoa Brand 146 $422,626
Izervay Avacincaptad Pegol Sodium/Pf Brand 49 $144,900
Eylea Hd Aflibercept Brand 28 $73,500
Ozurdex Dexamethasone Brand 18 $38,444
Prednisolone Acetate Generic 189 $5,382
Difluprednate Generic 47 $4,369
Dorzolamide-Timolol Dorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat Brand 149 $2,312
Brimonidine Tartrate Generic 53 $1,514
Loteprednol Etabonate Generic 17 $1,254

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 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 · 39 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$4,325,284

Of which drugs: $3,504,563

Medicare patients

1,237

Average age 78

Services billed

53,694

713 women, 524 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 51%
Diabetes 34%
Ischemic heart disease 34%
Chronic kidney disease 33%
Atrial fibrillation 23%
COPD 19%
Cancer 19%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, aflibercept, 1 mg J0178 Office 309 2,788 $1,842,905
Injection, faricimab-svoa, 0.1 mg J2777 Office 93 29,948 $826,313
Injection, aflibercept hd, 1 mg J0177 Office 124 2,428 $638,293
Injection, avacincaptad pegol, 0.1 mg J2782 Office 23 1,660 $143,799
Injection, dexamethasone, intravitreal implant, 0.1 mg J7312 Office 11 231 $35,411

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 9 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
ILUVIEN
  • Alimera Sciences, Inc. $789
$789 — —
EYLEA HD
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $288
$288 28 2,428
Izervay
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc $204
$204 49 1,660
OZURDEX
  • AbbVie, Inc. $127
$127 18 231
Syfovre
  • Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $92
$92 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

209 reported

Every payment, record by record

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What this means

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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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