RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Chudner

Optometrist · Bremerton, WANPI 1063416485

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.1%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 18 manufacturers reported payments, led by Optos, Inc. at 28.3% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in WA 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.

$16,364in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 139 payments — averaging $117.73 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Optos, Inc.$5K
  • Coopervision Inc.$2K
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
  • LKC Technologies, Inc.$2K
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$896
  • plus $2K from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$4002%
  • Travel & lodging$4,16725%
  • Food & beverage$9,01955%
  • Education$70%
  • Entertainment$2,77117%

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

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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.

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.

How this compares

$16,364 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,267 optometrist providers in Washington.

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