Carlos Defreitas
Optometrist · North Dartmouth, MANPI 1336136894
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 82 payments — averaging $36.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$958
- Alcon$454
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$441
- AbbVie$170
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$169
- Glaukos Corporation$146
- plus $646 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,985100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 25 | $958 |
| Alcon | 13 | $454 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 10 | $441 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $170 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $169 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $146 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $115 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 4 | $108 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Novartis | 2 | $41 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $36 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Amgen | 1 | $21 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Menicon America Inc | 1 | $17 |
| Eyepoint US, 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.
How this compares
$2,985 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,084 optometrist providers in Massachusetts.
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 | 12 | $9,973 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 15 | $5,999 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 13 | $4,728 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 12 | $3,924 |
| Latanoprost | 204 | $1,661 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 16 | $581 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 42 | $476 |
| Timolol Maleate | 29 | $412 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 29 | $310 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 15 | $259 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 16 | $163 |
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 | $170 | $14,70125 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta | $441 | $5,99915 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rocklatan | $98 | $3,92412 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 90th percentile of 1,084 optometrist providers in Massachusetts.
Other optometrist in North Dartmouth
- Jason ChinBoston$610K
- Donald KorbBoston$373K
- Ioanis PanagiotopoulosLawrence$369K
- Ronald WatanabeAndover$278K
- Timothy BossieBoston$211K
- Jaclyn GarlichBoston$162K
- Jessica CrookerScituate$99K
- Micaela CrowleyWestminster$88K
- Kristen BrownBoston$87K
- Hilary GaiserBoston$85K
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.