Brooke Messer
Optometrist · West Fargo, NDNPI 1114239282
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.1%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. accounts for 67.1% of it on its own, with 26 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $76,850, 4.6 times the $16,661 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in ND 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 295 payments — averaging $891.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$176K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$54K
- Glaukos Corporation$27K
- Heidelberg Engineering, Inc.$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Alcon$586
- plus $2K from 21 others
Across 6 payments — averaging $6308.33 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.
- Bausch Health US, LLC$38K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$134,42751%
- Speaking & faculty fees$95,00036%
- Travel & lodging$27,96911%
- Food & beverage$5,5512%
- Education$930%
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. | 121 | $176,376 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 22 | $54,419 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 42 | $26,712 |
| Heidelberg Engineering, Inc. | 3 | $1,612 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 12 | $1,266 |
| Alcon | 20 | $586 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 13 | $349 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $205 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 6 | $192 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $176 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 3 | $162 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 9 | $150 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $145 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 6 | $120 |
| Novartis | 3 | $77 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 3 | $66 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $58 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $45 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 2 | $23 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $19 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $5 |
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.
- ZENLENS$51,982
- ZEN LENS$48,711
- ULTRA$19,335
- BIOTRUE$16,335
- KXL System$14,667
- CE-marked KXLA system$10,025
- REVIVE$9,027
- ARISE$4,350
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$3,000
- MULTI-FOCAL LENS$2,400
- Spectralis$1,612
- ALDEN SCLERAL ZENLENS$1,318
- Non-Product Brand Specific$713
- Photrexa$272
- SIMBRINZA$143
- VEVYE$122
- MiSight Contact Lens$119
- Onefit Contact Lens$118
- TYRVAYA$104
- TearCare$104
How this compares
$263,040 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 179 optometrist providers in North Dakota.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Difluprednate | 43 | $5,180 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 48 | $2,233 |
| Travoprost | 11 | $1,268 |
| MoxifloxacinMoxifloxacin Hcl | 43 | $772 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 12 | $268 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 14 | $167 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in West Fargo
- Christian PrattWest Fargo$6K
- Nicholas RisbrudtWest Fargo$4K
- Seth StofferahnWest Fargo$3K
- Madison BoshWest Fargo$985
- Dori CarlsonPark River$19K
- Melissa McCulleyFargo$6K
- Jordan MuirFargo$6K
- William RobisonFargo$4K
- Megan HueskeRichardton$4K
- Adam MotacekFargo$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.