Ariel Cerenzie
Optometrist · Saint Louis, MONPI 1972023646
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $48,225 of the $76,460 with a category attached, or 63.1%. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 68.1% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $23,750 and has fallen 61.0% since, to $9,265 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MO 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 162 payments — averaging $471.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$52K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$13K
- Valley Contax, Inc.$8K
- Oculus, Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$868
- Alcon$442
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8,82312%
- Speaking & faculty fees$48,22563%
- Travel & lodging$12,53516%
- Food & beverage$5,9278%
- Education$5001%
- Gifts$3450%
- Entertainment$1060%
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. | 96 | $52,058 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 14 | $12,624 |
| Valley Contax, Inc. | 12 | $8,453 |
| Oculus, Inc. | 1 | $1,000 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 14 | $868 |
| Alcon | 9 | $442 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $423 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $211 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $167 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 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.
- MiSight Contact Lens$39,100
- ZENLENS$9,313
- MyDay Contact Lens$4,097
- SynergEyes contact lens$1,750
- Pentacam AXL WAVE$1,000
- ULTRA$280
- INFUSE$223
- Acuvue$216
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$180
- TOTAL30$162
- Clariti Contact Lens$136
- TearCare SmartLid$127
- TEARCARE(TM) (2.2) SYSTEM KIT$127
- Onefit Contact Lens$118
- P200DTx$106
- P200T$106
- P200TE$106
- P200TxE$106
- Precision 1$102
How this compares
$76,460 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,030 optometrist providers in Missouri.
Other optometrist in Saint Louis
- John McGrealSaint Louis$126K
- Paul LuongSaint Louis$44K
- Robert EnsleySaint Louis$38K
- Andrew RoyerSaint Louis$23K
- Robert BrusattiSaint Louis$20K
- Edward BennettSaint Louis$13K
- Craig SorceSaint Louis$8K
- Julie DekinderSaint Louis$8K
- Erin SullivanSaint Louis$6K
- Kathryn NoonanSaint Louis$6K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.