Has Andrew Benedict, OD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,347 in general payments to Andrew Benedict, OD across 118 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 Andrew Benedict, OD 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 Andrew Benedict, OD 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.

Andrew Benedict, OD

Optometrist · Blue Springs, MONPI 1962943399

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 118 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 27.4% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in MO 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.

$4,347in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 118 payments — averaging $36.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
Coopervision Inc.$620
Alcon$612
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$570
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$296
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$234
plus $824 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$4,347100%

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
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	22	$1,190
Coopervision Inc.	27	$620
Alcon	20	$612
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	12	$570
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	8	$296
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	12	$234
Sight Sciences, Inc.	3	$153
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	4	$138
Zimmer Biomet	1	$137
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	2	$97
Dompe US, Inc.	2	$91
Glaukos Corporation	1	$85
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$74
AbbVie	3	$49

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

$4,347 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,030 optometrist providers in Missouri.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$70,322

Medicare patients

510

Services billed

779

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	159	$1,683
Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone	14	$729
Prednisolone Acetate	11	$412
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	33	$367
Doxycycline Monohydrate	17	$256
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	14	$194
Ofloxacin	21	$191
Brimonidine Tartrate	14	$108
Timolol Maleate	13	$81

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Blue Springs

Andrew BiondoKirkwood$300K
John McGrealSaint Louis$126K
Alana KellerWildwood$94K
Sarah HubbardChesterfield$91K
Ariel CerenzieSaint Louis$76K
Geoffrey PowellKansas City$55K
Thomas HobbsSedalia$53K
Heather WebsterColumbia$52K
Sean MulqueenyCreve Coeur$45K
Glen LojkaEllisville$45K

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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.

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