Chad Carlsson, OD
Optometrist · Charleston, SCNPI 1508853904
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (50.6%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Visioneering Technologies, Inc. at 53.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,172 and has fallen 89.4% since, to $546 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in SC 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 92 payments — averaging $139.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$7K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Optovue, Inc.$710
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$663
- Alcon$576
- Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$241
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,0008%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,50051%
- Travel & lodging$2932%
- Food & beverage$4,98839%
- Entertainment$610%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 11 | $6,925 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 20 | $2,348 |
| Optovue, Inc. | 10 | $710 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 18 | $663 |
| Alcon | 11 | $576 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $241 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $168 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $137 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $127 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $126 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $119 |
| Amgen | 1 | $115 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 2 | $98 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
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.
- MiSight Contact Lens$1,293
- Acuvue$223
- TOTAL30$161
- CE-marked KXLA system$137
- AcrySof IQ VIVITY IOL$127
- DURYSTA$126
- Prokera$122
- AmnioGraft$122
- OCT$119
- TEPEZZA$115
- Tecnis IOL$112
- BIOTRUE$109
- ULTRA$109
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$109
- MyDay Contact Lens$103
How this compares
$12,842 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 653 optometrist providers in South Carolina.
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.
Other optometrist in Charleston
- Richard BedellCharleston$55K
- Jennifer ZolmanCharleston$21K
- Michael ZolmanCharleston$14K
- Michele DonovanCharleston$7K
- William DentonCharleston$7K
- Elyse DewittCharleston$6K
- Jensen RafoolCharleston$6K
- Alexa RoweCharleston$6K
- Thomas WeshefskyMyrtle Beach$77K
- Patrick VollmerColumbia$49K
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.