Alison Halpin
Optometrist · Saratoga Springs, NYNPI 1558700237
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $1,935 of the $2,743 with a category attached, or 70.5%. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 71.7% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,990, more than ten times the $115 reported in 2019.
Across 30 payments — averaging $91.43 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$171
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$132
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$115
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$85
- Alcon$71
- plus $202 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,93571%
- Food & beverage$75427%
- Education$70%
- Entertainment$472%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $1,967 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $171 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $132 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 6 | $115 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| Alcon | 3 | $71 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $68 |
| Novartis | 4 | $65 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- MiSight Contact Lens$1,935
- VUITY$123
- XDEMVY$111
How this compares
$2,743 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 11 | $279 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Saratoga Springs
- Roy KlineLake Katrine$822K
- Susan ResnickNew York$463K
- Murray FingeretHewlett$374K
- Albert MorierSlingerlands$347K
- Denise WhittamNew York$343K
- Justin BazanBrooklyn$303K
- Jennifer TsaiNew York$275K
- Alexander KabiriQueens Village$268K
- Sophia VisanjiNew York$233K
- Jason ComptonNew York$181K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.