Baley Petersen
Optometrist · Mount Pleasant, SCNPI 1043569858
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,437 of the $5,210 with a category attached, or 85.2%. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 39.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,687, more than ten times the $48 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in SC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 98 payments — averaging $53.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$450
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$435
- Amgen$349
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$313
- Alcon$265
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$77315%
- Food & beverage$4,43785%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 33 | $2,064 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 6 | $450 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 15 | $435 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $349 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $313 |
| Alcon | 5 | $265 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $253 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 7 | $252 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $247 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $216 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $137 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- Acuvue$433
- TEPEZZA$349
- DURYSTA$253
- Prokera$241
- CE-marked KXLA system$137
- AmnioGraft$122
- TRYPTYR$119
- Tecnis IOL$117
- Precision 1$102
How this compares
$5,210 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 653 optometrist providers in South Carolina.
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 | 62 | $850 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Mount Pleasant
- Michael CriswellMount Pleasant$16K
- James MajorsMount Pleasant$9K
- David BodkinMount Pleasant$6K
- Leslie KirkMount Pleasant$5K
- Jean SilecchiaMount Pleasant$5K
- Thomas WeshefskyMyrtle Beach$77K
- Richard BedellCharleston$55K
- Patrick VollmerColumbia$49K
- William ColemanEasley$22K
- Furman SmithMt Pleasant$21K
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.