C Kocks
Optometrist · Saginaw, MINPI 1134114531
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (57.0%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 72.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,711 and has fallen 57.1% since, to $734 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 44 payments — averaging $73.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$342
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$239
- Optos, Inc.$151
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$116
- AbbVie$43
- plus $16 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$201%
- Travel & lodging$1,85057%
- Food & beverage$1,35442%
- Entertainment$191%
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 | 18 | $2,338 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 11 | $342 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $239 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $151 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $116 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $43 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- DAILIES$1,671
- AIR OPTIX$884
- MyDay Contact Lens$113
How this compares
$3,243 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,523 optometrist providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 91 | $2,775 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 14 | $2,040 |
| Timolol Maleate | 25 | $482 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 12 | $358 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 12 | $319 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Saginaw
- Jamie KuzniarBloomfield$473K
- Monica JohnsonbaughGrosse Pointe$393K
- Nicholas BrunsFlint$238K
- Jay CrankGrand Rapids$209K
- Jeffrey VaranelliWarren$204K
- Thomas RothAnn Arbor$98K
- Frances Poma NowinskiBloomfield Twp$91K
- Michael LipsonWalled Lake$77K
- Stephanie RamdassBig Rapids$59K
- Robert FarrellMount Clemens$55K
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.