Benjamin Lickteig
Optometrist · Dedham, MANPI 1962738286
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (50.1%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 54.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $5,616 and has fallen 67.0% since, to $1,855 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MA 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 129 payments — averaging $86.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$6K
- Alcon$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$905
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$417
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$134
- plus $81 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3503%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5004%
- Travel & lodging$4,70642%
- Food & beverage$5,57750%
- Education$70%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 34 | $6,072 |
| Alcon | 23 | $1,876 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 28 | $1,655 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 21 | $905 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $417 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $134 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 3 | $63 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- CVI Contact Lens$3,203
- Acuvue$1,096
- DAILIES$1,052
- MiSight Contact Lens$971
- AIR OPTIX$596
- INFUSE$594
- MyDay Contact Lens$337
- Clariti Contact Lens$321
- Precision 1$248
- Precision7$163
- TOTAL30$132
- DAILIES TOTAL1$132
- LENSCRAFTERS$108
How this compares
$11,140 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,084 optometrist providers in Massachusetts.
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 | 15 | $114 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Dedham
- Blair O'ReillyDedham$43K
- Erin LordDedham$6K
- Donald KorbBoston$373K
- Jaclyn GarlichBoston$162K
- Jessica CrookerScituate$99K
- Micaela CrowleyWestminster$88K
- Kristen BrownBoston$87K
- Timothy BossieBoston$75K
- Sabrina GaanMedfield$66K
- John MagalhaesN Dartmouth$40K
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.