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

Stephen Wexler

Ophthalmology Richmond Heights, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1700822012 CMS profile 349913

15 The Boulevard Saint Louis, Richmond Heights, MO 63117

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General payments

$86,404

100 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$6,956

Paid to them · 3 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$292,947 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2020–2023

Through program year 2025, Stephen Wexler of Richmond Heights, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $86,404 across 100 general payments and $6,956 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $292,947 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. 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 96th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

8 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $26,124 14
2024 General $27,444 12
2023 General $6,698 18
2022 General $3,125 8
2021 General $5,093 6
2020 General $4,545 11
2020 Research $6,956 3
2019 General $13,374 31

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Stephen Wexler were reported at $26,124. 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 Stephen Wexler Ophthalmology median Middle half National median
2019 $13,374 $258 $104–$655 $163
2020 $4,545 $126 $45–$321 $114
2021 $5,093 $205 $76–$534 $132
2022 $3,125 $266 $100–$678 $149
2023 $6,698 $308 $117–$745 $160
2024 $27,444 $340 $127–$846 $164
2025 $26,124 $384 $136–$917 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Alcon Vision LLC $72,607 79 payments
  2. Alcon Research LLC $13,318 8 payments
  3. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $146 1 payment
  4. Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $134 1 payment
  5. Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. $58 1 payment
  6. TissueTech, Inc. $55 7 payments
  7. AbbVie, Inc. $31 1 payment
  8. Harrow Eye, LLC $29 1 payment
  9. Glaukos Corporation $25 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $65,218 37 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $17,629 11 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $3,437 46 payments
  4. Education $120 6 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Wavelight Refractive Suite $39,423 31 payments
  2. WaveLight EX500 Excimer Laser $26,086 12 payments
  3. Wavelight Ophthalmology $20,964 5 payments
  4. Wavelight Ophthalmology $16,829 28 payments
  5. Wavelight FS200 Femtosecond Laser $1,960 1 payment
  6. NGENUITY $735 1 payment
  7. AcrySof IQ VIVITY $490 1 payment
  8. Clareon $490 1 payment
  9. AcrySof IQ PanOptix UV IOL $490 1 payment
  10. Acuvue $146 1 payment
  11. Other $737 30 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Research payments came from Research payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Alcon Research LLC $6,956 3 payments

Records

103 reported

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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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