Cheryl Alderson
Optometrist · Lake Forest, CANPI 1366521809
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.7%), other and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Welch Allyn at 44.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,725 and has fallen 67.0% since, to $898 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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 63 payments — averaging $93.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Welch Allyn$3K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$879
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$452
- AbbVie$291
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$290
- Coopervision Inc.$276
- plus $1K from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,24155%
- Gifts$190%
- Other$2,66045%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Welch Allyn | 1 | $2,660 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 15 | $879 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $452 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $291 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $290 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 6 | $276 |
| Alcon | 6 | $228 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 6 | $209 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $209 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $143 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $44 |
| Novartis | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
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
$5,920 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
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 Lake Forest
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
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.