Caitlyn Mitchell
Optometrist · Waterbury, CTNPI 1518221142
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 109 payments — averaging $23.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$457
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$274
- Novartis$268
- Alcon$237
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$196
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$152
- plus $937 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,509100%
- Entertainment$120%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $457 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 14 | $274 |
| Novartis | 13 | $268 |
| Alcon | 10 | $237 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $196 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $152 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 7 | $140 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $117 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 5 | $110 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $107 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $53 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Amgen | 1 | $25 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 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.
- XDEMVY$150
How this compares
$2,521 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 574 optometrist providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 114 | $114,819 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 30 | $48,008 |
| TyrvayaVarenicline Tartrate | 19 | $26,599 |
| Cyclosporine | 48 | $24,715 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 37 | $21,492 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 78 | $11,786 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 12 | $4,572 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 12 | $4,320 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 80 | $3,761 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 299 | $2,854 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 19 | $2,638 |
| Timolol Maleate | 49 | $1,182 |
| Fluorometholone | 19 | $1,079 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 29 | $967 |
| Latanoprost | 112 | $896 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis, Lumigan | $117 | $136,311151 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra, Vyzulta | $53 | $52,32842 claims |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.Tyrvaya | $152 | $26,59919 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate | $196 | $11,78678 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 75th percentile of 574 optometrist providers in Connecticut.
Other optometrist in Waterbury
- Jeremy PrudhommeWaterbury$7K
- John PulaskiWaterbury$7K
- Fabian VillacisWaterbury$6K
- Joseph ThimonsFairfield$343K
- Inna LazarOld Greenwich$147K
- Jennifer StewartNew Canaan$91K
- Maria PribisStamford$78K
- Michael CooperWest Hartford$47K
- Richard NowakEast Windsor$36K
- Joseph PavanoNew Britain$22K
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.