Andrew Pucker
Optometrist · Birmingham, ALNPI 1457648842
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $17,320 of the $27,382 with a category attached, or 63.3%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 50.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $14,842 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $152 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in AL 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 66 payments — averaging $414.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$14K
- Alcon$9K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$4K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$213
- Shire North American Group Inc$143
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$102
- plus $178 from 8 others
Across 18 payments — averaging $35,553 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Alcon Research LLC$640K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,32063%
- Speaking & faculty fees$7,95029%
- Travel & lodging$4962%
- Food & beverage$1,5966%
- Gifts$190%
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. | 21 | $13,856 |
| Alcon | 21 | $8,789 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $4,100 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 5 | $213 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $143 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $36 |
| Novartis | 1 | $26 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $13 |
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
$27,382 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 749 optometrist providers in Alabama.
Other optometrist in Birmingham
- Kelly NicholsBirmingham$231K
- Leo SemesBirmingham$60K
- Ashley SavageBirmingham$9K
- Ami EpsteinBirmingham$8K
- Caroline PateBirmingham$6K
- Casey BrownBirmingham$5K
- Valencia WellsBirmingham$5K
- Nicholas OnkenBirmingham$5K
- Mark SchaefferHoover$470K
- Benjamin KachelmanFlorence$101K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.