Charles Teaters
Optometrist · Woodlawn, VANPI 1053416040
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,662 of the $6,097 with a category attached, or 60.1%. Alcon accounts for 68.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,497 and has fallen 52.5% since, to $1,187 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in VA 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 102 payments — averaging $59.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$4K
- Coopervision Inc.$450
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$421
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$351
- Glaukos Corporation$226
- Harrow Eye, LLC$122
- plus $352 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,41540%
- Food & beverage$3,66260%
- Gifts$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 49 | $4,175 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 15 | $450 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 24 | $421 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $351 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $226 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $122 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $95 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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$1,274
- AIR OPTIX$736
- Precision 1$234
- VEVYE$122
- EYLEA$120
- MIEBO$120
- XIIDRA$120
- TOTAL30$118
- DAILIES TOTAL1$118
- Precision7$115
- CEQUA$102
How this compares
$6,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
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 | 224 | $1,456 |
| Timolol Maleate | 62 | $375 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 18 | $301 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Woodlawn
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Walter SchlabachHarrisonburg$31K
- Mark AbrahamFalls Church$30K
- David TangVirginia Beach$29K
- Tiffany LioneAldie$23K
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.