Anthony Zarella
Optometrist · Charlottesville, VANPI 1396129763
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,038 of the $1,177 with a category attached, or 88.2%. It is spread thinly across 11 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $443 and has fallen 69.9% since, to $133 in 2024.
Across 20 payments — averaging $58.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$165
- Alcon$144
- Optos, Inc.$139
- LKC Technologies, Inc.$133
- Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$120
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$112
- plus $363 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,03888%
- Entertainment$13912%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 2 | $165 |
| Alcon | 4 | $144 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $139 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $112 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $111 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $100 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 5 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $59 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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.
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$278
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$278
- NFC-700$139
- EYSUVIS$120
- INFUSE$112
- CLARUS 500$106
- AcrySof$102
How this compares
$1,177 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 40 | $305 |
| Timolol Maleate | 17 | $302 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Charlottesville
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Walter SchlabachHarrisonburg$31K
- Mark AbrahamFalls Church$30K
- David TangVirginia Beach$29K
- Tiffany LioneAldie$23K
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.