Britt Gustafson
Optometrist · Eden Prairie, MNNPI 1851402689
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (53.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 93.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among optometrist clinicians in MN 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 542 payments — averaging $435.20 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$221K
- Alcon Research LLC$14K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$24
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$17
Across 455 payments — averaging $985.65 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Alcon Research LLC$448K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$125,50053%
- Speaking & faculty fees$45,64319%
- Travel & lodging$53,61523%
- Food & beverage$11,1045%
- Gifts$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 534 | $221,493 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 6 | $14,345 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Precision 1$97,147
- TOTAL30$95,657
- DAILIES TOTAL1$85,173
- DAILIES$50,341
- Precision7$33,154
- AIR OPTIX$24,570
- ILUX$6,376
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$6,316
- Systane$6,189
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$6,016
- AIR OPTIX Aqua$2,851
How this compares
$235,879 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 826 optometrist providers in Minnesota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 11 | $107 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 11 | $101 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Eden Prairie
- Chad DockterEden Prairie$2K
- Jacob LangStillwater$264K
- Gina WesleyMedina$232K
- Nicholas ColatrellaSartell$84K
- Trevor FossoSartell$45K
- Mathew WalkerAlexandria$43K
- Joshua HanenMinneapolis$40K
- Zachary HollandEdina$36K
- Patrick WellikApple Valley$15K
- Paul HammondCoon Rapids$14K
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.