Benjamin Ondersma
Optometrist · Columbia, SCNPI 1649590936
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $55.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$795
- AbbVie$492
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$480
- Coopervision Inc.$464
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$416
- Amgen$250
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,33396%
- Gifts$391%
- Entertainment$1624%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 14 | $795 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $492 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 11 | $480 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $464 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 17 | $416 |
| Amgen | 2 | $250 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $250 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $242 |
| Alcon | 8 | $206 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $124 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $76 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $21 |
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.
- INFUSE$337
- TEPEZZA$250
- CEQUA$250
- Tecnis IOL$248
- Acuvue$244
- XDEMVY$242
- XIIDRA$225
- AdaptDx$126
- BIOTRUE$125
- ULTRA$125
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$125
- DURYSTA$125
- VUITY$124
- LUMIGAN$123
- COMBIGAN$123
- Clariti Contact Lens$114
- AcrySof$113
- MiSight Contact Lens$110
- P200DTx$102
- P200T$102
How this compares
$4,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 653 optometrist providers in South Carolina.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 90 | $527 |
| Timolol Maleate | 14 | $213 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Columbia
- Patrick VollmerColumbia$1.6M
- Duc TranColumbia$57K
- Wayne CannonColumbia$7K
- Nickolas VastisColumbia$7K
- Bradley PowersColumbia$7K
- Dorothy ParkColumbia$6K
- Philip FlynnColumbia$5K
- John BrinkleyColumbia$5K
- Elliott KellerBoiling Springs$276K
- William SpearmanPickens$104K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.