Has Angela Kaplan received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,607 in general payments to Angela Kaplan across 77 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 Angela Kaplan 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 Angela Kaplan 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.

Angela Kaplan

Optometrist · Ft Myers, FLNPI 1538260906

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,607in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $72.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$599
Coopervision Inc.$580
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$519
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$496
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$456
Optos, Inc.$429
plus $3K from 16 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$5,32495%
Entertainment$2835%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	7	$599
Coopervision Inc.	6	$580
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	8	$519
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	4	$496
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	5	$456
Optos, Inc.	5	$429
Alcon	4	$371
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	6	$359
Glaukos Corporation	2	$265
Dompe US, Inc.	2	$246
Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.	4	$237
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$181
Optovue, Inc.	2	$178
Sight Sciences, Inc.	1	$100
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	1	$100
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$100
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	2	$98
LKC Technologies, Inc.	1	$88
Amgen	1	$84
Novartis	2	$44
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$39
Visionix USA, Inc	1	$35

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

$5,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Latanoprost	11	$132

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Ft Myers

Michael KynnJacksonville$4.5M
Christine HalodaJacksonville$3.1M
Bradley GieddWinter Park$2.5M
Christopher PearsonLongwood$2.5M
Mark PerryOrlando$1.6M
Bryan StamJacksonville Beach$1M
Oksana SovaJacksonville$841K
James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
April JasperWest Palm Beach$781K
Jerry RobbenSt Augustine$663K

See the full list for Florida →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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