Beth Summers
Optometrist · Astoria, NYNPI 1639521578
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $2,400 of the $2,986 with a category attached, or 80.4%. Art Optical Contact Lens Inc. accounts for 80.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,670 and has fallen 98.2% since, to $48 in 2022.
Across 19 payments — averaging $157.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Art Optical Contact Lens Inc.$2K
- Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC$199
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$172
- AbbVie$144
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$17
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$15
- plus $39 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,40080%
- Food & beverage$57419%
- Entertainment$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Art Optical Contact Lens Inc. | 1 | $2,400 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $199 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $172 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $144 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Alcon | 1 | $14 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Ampleye$2,400
- Tobradex ST$177
- LUMIGAN$107
How this compares
$2,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.
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.
Other optometrist in Astoria
- Roy KlineLake Katrine$822K
- Susan ResnickNew York$463K
- Murray FingeretHewlett$374K
- Albert MorierSlingerlands$347K
- Denise WhittamNew York$343K
- Justin BazanBrooklyn$303K
- Jennifer TsaiNew York$275K
- Alexander KabiriQueens Village$268K
- Sophia VisanjiNew York$233K
- Jason ComptonNew York$181K
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.