Ben Donald, OD
Optometrist · Carthage, TXNPI 1407942741
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 29 payments — averaging $108.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Glaukos Corporation$630
- Alcon$567
- Visionary Optics LLC$350
- AbbVie$252
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$218
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$212
- plus $924 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1214%
- Food & beverage$2,51180%
- Gifts$35011%
- Entertainment$1705%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Glaukos Corporation | 5 | $630 |
| Alcon | 3 | $567 |
| Visionary Optics LLC | 1 | $350 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $252 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $218 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $212 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $184 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $170 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $168 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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.
- AIR OPTIX$421
- KXL System$307
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$300
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$300
- Clareon$146
- iDoseTR$139
- Photrexa$132
- TYRVAYA$125
- LUMIGAN$125
- COMBIGAN$125
- ACTHAR$118
- MIEBO$118
- BIOTRUE$115
- ULTRA$115
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$115
How this compares
$3,152 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
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 | 105 | $928 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 14 | $154 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 14 | $131 |
| Timolol Maleate | 13 | $117 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Carthage
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$3.2M
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$3M
- Bryan FrazierTyler$1.4M
- Derek CunninghamAustin$940K
- Wendy ChungKaty$900K
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$766K
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$568K
- Mina VanrachackSan Antonio$553K
- Luis RojasMcKinney$309K
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.