Who Paid My Doc
Stephen Khachikian
Ophthalmology Rapid City, SD Medical Doctor
NPI 1518139070 CMS profile 249630
2800 3Rd St, Rapid City, SD 57701
General payments
$10,818
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$68,686
Research they led as principal investigator
$76,561
Through program year 2025, Stephen Khachikian of Rapid City, SD is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $10,818 across 34 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $76,561 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them. They also declared ownership or investment interests valued at $68,686 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 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 | $145 | 6 | |
| 2024 | General | $7,545 | 3 | |
| 2023 | General | $38 | 2 | |
| 2022 | General | $1,221 | 8 | |
| 2021 | General | $755 | 3 | |
| 2020 | General | $550 | 6 | |
| 2019 | General | $565 | 6 | |
| 2024 | Ownership | $28,694 | 1 | |
| 2023 | Ownership | $12,077 | 1 | |
| 2022 | Ownership | $5,000 | 1 | |
| 2021 | Ownership | $8,333 | 1 | |
| 2020 | Ownership | $8,333 | 1 | |
| 2019 | Ownership | $6,250 | 1 |
Beside peers
- Stephen Khachikian
- Ophthalmology median
- Middle half of Ophthalmology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Stephen Khachikian were reported at $145. Among 13,034 Ophthalmology profiles paid that year, the median was $384 and the middle half received between $136 and $917.
Show as a table
| Year | Stephen Khachikian | Ophthalmology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $565 | $258 | $104–$655 | $163 |
| 2020 | $550 | $126 | $45–$321 | $114 |
| 2021 | $755 | $205 | $76–$534 | $132 |
| 2022 | $1,221 | $266 | $100–$678 | $149 |
| 2023 | $38 | $308 | $117–$745 | $160 |
| 2024 | $7,545 | $340 | $127–$846 | $164 |
| 2025 | $145 | $384 | $136–$917 | $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 · 9 drugsPart D claims
489
Drug cost
$18,818
Branded share of claims
16.8%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | Generic | 242 | $8,755 | |
| Valacyclovir Valacyclovir Hcl | Brand | 50 | $2,995 | |
| Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | Brand | 14 | $2,706 | |
| Fluorometholone | Generic | 25 | $2,141 | |
| Ofloxacin | Generic | 81 | $996 | |
| Flurbiprofen Sodium | Generic | 35 | $937 | |
| Polymyxin B Sul-Trimethoprim Polymyxin B Sulf/Trimethoprim | Brand | 18 | $133 | |
| Timolol Maleate | Generic | 13 | $88 | |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | Generic | 11 | $66 |
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 · 47 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$601,632
Medicare patients
1,040
Services billed
3,584
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 60% | |
| Arthritis | 39% | |
| Diabetes | 21% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 19% | |
| Osteoporosis | 16% | |
| Cancer | 13% | |
| Depression | 13% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 12% |
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
34 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.