Ashley Savage, OD
Optometrist · Birmingham, ALNPI 1972111995
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 176 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 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 176 payments — averaging $50.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$994
- AbbVie$785
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$728
- plus $3K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,872100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 29 | $1,444 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 30 | $1,081 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 27 | $1,013 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 17 | $994 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 23 | $785 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 10 | $728 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $632 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 8 | $549 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 6 | $409 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $347 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $245 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $242 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $163 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $128 |
| Novartis | 1 | $75 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $38 |
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.
- TYRVAYA$666
- CEQUA$478
- Acuvue$474
- VUITY$356
- Rhopressa$241
- Rocklatan$241
- INFUSE$231
- Oxervate$226
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$221
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$215
- Tobradex ST$161
- TearCare SmartLid$147
- TEARCARE(TM) (2.2) SYSTEM KIT$147
- MIEBO$147
- CE-marked KXLA system$139
- SIMBRINZA$134
- Kahook Dual Blade$128
- Clearpath$128
- Ahmed Glaucoma Valve$128
- Streamline$128
How this compares
$8,872 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 749 optometrist providers in Alabama.
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 | 20 | $607 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 22 | $242 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Birmingham
- Kelly NicholsBirmingham$231K
- Leo SemesBirmingham$60K
- Andrew PuckerBirmingham$27K
- 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).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.