Brandon Hicks
Optometrist · Boise, IDNPI 1679887756
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 10 payments — averaging $23.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$83
- Ocular Therapeutix, Inc.$52
- Novartis$44
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$22
- Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC$19
- Shire North American Group Inc$13
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$234100%
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, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $83 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Novartis | 3 | $44 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$234 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 304 optometrist providers in Idaho.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclosporine | 12 | $5,473 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 11 | $4,864 |
| Latanoprost | 238 | $2,428 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 46 | $1,690 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 18 | $1,109 |
| Fluorometholone | 13 | $859 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 15 | $781 |
| Brinzolamide | 12 | $693 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 19 | $587 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 22 | $527 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 19 | $321 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 22 | $236 |
| Timolol Maleate | 34 | $216 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 18 | $192 |
| Tobramycin | 16 | $68 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Boise
- Philip RaineyBoise$175K
- Lavar KofoedBoise$91K
- Amber SimonsonBoise$6K
- Brian McNeelBoise$6K
- Erik ThompsonBoise$5K
- Utham BalachandranBoise$4K
- Todd StebelBoise$4K
- Zackary HallBoise$4K
- Dylan HatfieldBoise$4K
- Gregory BodilyBoise$3K
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.