Andrew Morgenstern
Optometrist · Bethesda, MDNPI 1598850208
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (37.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 39.9% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in MD 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.
Across 128 payments — averaging $487.99 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$25K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$18K
- Oculus, Inc.$6K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$5K
- AbbVie$2K
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$2K
- plus $5K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$19,87832%
- Speaking & faculty fees$23,52538%
- Travel & lodging$12,73220%
- Food & beverage$6,29110%
- Gifts$370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 38 | $24,933 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 26 | $17,885 |
| Oculus, Inc. | 5 | $5,750 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $4,956 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $1,978 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $1,892 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 13 | $1,853 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 5 | $1,840 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 9 | $547 |
| Novartis | 3 | $235 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 3 | $207 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $153 |
| Amgen | 3 | $149 |
| Immunogen, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
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.
- DAILIES$23,183
- XDEMVY$15,616
- CEQUA$4,916
- Myopia Master$4,000
- TearScience Lipiflow System$1,806
- TearCare$1,750
- VUITY$1,407
- Pentacam$1,000
- Keratograph$750
- LUMIGAN$516
- TOTAL30$422
- XIIDRA$341
- Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$297
- KXL System$284
- KXL1B-CE-marked KXLsystem$166
- AIR OPTIX$159
- RADIUS$146
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$142
- TYRVAYA$123
- MIEBO$121
How this compares
$62,463 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 790 optometrist providers in Maryland.
Other optometrist in Bethesda
- Michael BerenhausBethesda$4K
- Babak HosseiniBethesda$4K
- Susan LathropFulton$337K
- Timothy EarleyOakland$276K
- Padmini NathanFrederick$199K
- Alan GlazierRockville$87K
- Devin SasserSilver Spring$40K
- Rizwana IqbalEllicott City$34K
- Brian WoolfPasadena$19K
- Vickie FangGaithersburg$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.