Who Paid My Doc
William Faulkner
Ophthalmology Covington, KY Medical Doctor
NPI 1821056706 CMS profile 218024
1401 Madison Ave, Covington, KY 41011
General payments
$6,883
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$1,250
Through program year 2021, William Faulkner of Covington, KY is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $6,883 across 112 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,250 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 85th percentile of Ophthalmology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
3 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | General | $740 | 24 | |
| 2020 | General | $3,209 | 39 | |
| 2019 | General | $2,934 | 49 |
Beside peers
- William Faulkner
- Ophthalmology median
- Middle half of Ophthalmology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to William Faulkner were reported at $0. 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 | William Faulkner | Ophthalmology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $2,934 | $258 | $104–$655 | $163 |
| 2020 | $3,209 | $126 | $45–$321 | $114 |
| 2021 | $740 | $205 | $76–$534 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $266 | $100–$678 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $308 | $117–$745 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $340 | $127–$846 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $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.
Records
112 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.