Who Paid My Doc
Mark Michels
Retina Specialist Palm Beach Gardens, FL Medical Doctor
NPI 1609880178 CMS profile 72259
3399 Pga Blvd, Ste 350, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
General payments
$7,638
Research payments
$4,645
Ownership & investment interest
$54,233
Research they led as principal investigator
$158,107
Through program year 2025, Mark Michels of Palm Beach Gardens, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $7,638 across 79 general payments and $4,645 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $158,107 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $54,233 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 78th percentile of Retina Specialist profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
14 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $221 | 2 | |
| 2024 | General | $131 | 2 | |
| 2024 | Research | $4,645 | 1 | |
| 2023 | General | $187 | 5 | |
| 2022 | General | $3,557 | 24 | |
| 2021 | General | $1,326 | 13 | |
| 2020 | General | $517 | 8 | |
| 2019 | General | $1,699 | 25 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $14,616 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $14,617 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $6,250 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $6,250 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $6,250 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $6,250 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Mark Michels
- Retina Specialist median
- Middle half of Retina Specialist
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Mark Michels were reported at $221. Among 1,235 Retina Specialist profiles paid that year, the median was $457 and the middle half received between $175 and $1,079.
Show as a table
| Year | Mark Michels | Retina Specialist median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $1,699 | $410 | $157–$1,517 | $163 |
| 2020 | $517 | $168 | $65–$778 | $114 |
| 2021 | $1,326 | $258 | $101–$1,161 | $132 |
| 2022 | $3,557 | $418 | $162–$1,488 | $149 |
| 2023 | $187 | $476 | $178–$1,312 | $160 |
| 2024 | $131 | $520 | $188–$1,372 | $164 |
| 2025 | $221 | $457 | $175–$1,079 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Records
80 reportedEvery payment, record by record
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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.