Has Alicia Lau received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $300,177 in general payments to Alicia Lau across 68 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Alicia Lau did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Alicia Lau come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Alicia Lau

Optometrist · San Diego, CANPI 1629312210

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $298,562 of the $300,177 with a category attached, or 99.5%. Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. accounts for 99.5% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $148,482 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $71 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$300,177in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 68 payments — averaging $4414.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$299K
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$500
AbbVie$282
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$247
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$122
Shire North American Group Inc$120
plus $342 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$298,56299%
Food & beverage$1,6151%

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.	48	$298,562
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$500
AbbVie(2 entities)	5	$282
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	2	$247
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$122
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$120
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	2	$116
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	1	$114
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$42
Dompe US, Inc.	1	$28
Alcon	1	$21
Novartis	1	$20

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$300,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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