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

Stephen Walters

Glaucoma Specialist Pleasant Ridge, MI Medical Doctor

NPI 1013356914 CMS profile 1132472

404 E 10 Mile Rd Ste 100, Pleasant Ridge, MI 48069

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General payments

$1,541

67 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

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

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Stephen Walters of Pleasant Ridge, MI is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $1,541 across 67 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 32nd 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 $288 13
2024 General $240 12
2023 General $229 11
2022 General $204 9
2021 General $129 3
2020 General $304 10
2019 General $148 9

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Stephen Walters
  • Glaucoma Specialist median
  • Middle half of Glaucoma Specialist
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Stephen Walters were reported at $288. Among 370 Glaucoma Specialist profiles paid that year, the median was $597 and the middle half received between $244 and $1,607.

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Year Stephen Walters Glaucoma Specialist median Middle half National median
2019 $148 $433 $150–$1,170 $163
2020 $304 $242 $74–$693 $114
2021 $129 $324 $122–$936 $132
2022 $204 $399 $121–$1,081 $149
2023 $229 $458 $190–$1,208 $160
2024 $240 $558 $215–$1,359 $164
2025 $288 $597 $244–$1,607 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $301 13 payments
  2. Alcon Vision LLC $232 11 payments
  3. Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $220 11 payments
  4. Allergan Inc. $179 6 payments
  5. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $175 10 payments
  6. Ivantis, Inc $102 1 payment
  7. Sight Sciences, Inc. $96 4 payments
  8. Bausch & Lomb, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $64 3 payments
  9. Glaukos Corporation $58 2 payments
  10. Thea Pharma Inc. $55 3 payments
  11. Other $58 3 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $1,523 66 payments
  2. Education $18 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. VYZULTA $221 12 payments
  2. rocklatan Glaucoma $191 9 payments
  3. LUMIGAN $180 7 payments
  4. Rocklatan Ophthalmology $160 7 payments
  5. rhopressa $136 2 payments
  6. Hydrus $102 1 payment
  7. XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM $92 1 payment
  8. ZYLET $88 4 payments
  9. DURYSTA $81 4 payments
  10. MIEBO $64 4 payments
  11. Other $907 43 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 · 31 drugs

Part D claims

7,783

Median for Ophthalmology: 891

Drug cost

$618,807

Median for Ophthalmology: $68,233

Branded share of claims

31.6%

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
Lumigan Bimatoprost Brand 372 $163,925
Rhopressa Netarsudil Mesylate Brand 157 $62,372
Rocklatan Netarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost Brand 121 $51,602
Prednisolone Acetate Generic 757 $43,237
Brimonidine Tartrate-Timolol Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 177 $35,771
Brimonidine Tartrate Generic 701 $34,235
Latanoprost Generic 2,015 $31,349
Dorzolamide-Timolol Dorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat Brand 933 $21,902
Combigan Brimonidine Tartrate/Timolol Brand 63 $21,458
Simbrinza Brinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart Brand 84 $20,274

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 31 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 · 50 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$285,653

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

589

Average age 78

Services billed

5,480

343 women, 246 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 47%
Diabetes 38%
Ischemic heart disease 34%
Chronic kidney disease 28%
Atrial fibrillation 20%
Osteoporosis 18%
Heart failure 17%

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 10 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
VYZULTA
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. $56
$56 18 —
Rocklatan
  • Alcon Vision LLC $38
$38 121 —
LUMIGAN
  • AbbVie, Inc. $38
$38 372 —
DURYSTA
  • AbbVie, Inc. $15
$15 — —
RESTASIS MULTIDOSE
  • AbbVie, Inc. $5
$5 — —

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

67 reported

Every 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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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.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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

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