Amanda Thurmes, OD
Optometrist · New Prague, MNNPI 1821519356
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.1%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. accounts for 60.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,679 and has fallen 86.8% since, to $222 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 41 payments — averaging $53.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
- Alcon$384
- Optos, Inc.$237
- Coopervision Inc.$148
- Glaukos Corporation$41
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$29
- plus $27 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$81837%
- Food & beverage$1,15052%
- Entertainment$23711%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 20 | $1,338 |
| Alcon | 9 | $384 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $237 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $148 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $41 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Quidel Corporation | 2 | $10 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $3 |
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
$2,206 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 826 optometrist providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 68 | $2,291 |
| Latanoprost | 87 | $977 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 31 | $392 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 16 | $218 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in New Prague
- Wendy GoldsmithNew Prague$3K
- Timothy GoldsmithNew Prague$2K
- Jacob LangStillwater$264K
- Britt GustafsonEden Prairie$236K
- Gina WesleyMedina$232K
- Nicholas ColatrellaSartell$84K
- Trevor FossoSartell$45K
- Mathew WalkerAlexandria$43K
- Joshua HanenMinneapolis$40K
- Zachary HollandEdina$36K
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.