Christi Hill
Optometrist · Pelham, ALNPI 1679565055
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.8% of the total across 134 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among optometrist clinicians in AL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 134 payments — averaging $31.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$976
- Alcon$918
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$496
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$428
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$386
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$224
- plus $843 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,17698%
- Entertainment$962%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 30 | $976 |
| Alcon | 24 | $918 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 15 | $496 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 18 | $428 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 8 | $386 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $224 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $171 |
| Novartis | 6 | $93 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$4,271 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 749 optometrist providers in Alabama.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclosporine | 15 | $8,232 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 36 | $1,059 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 36 | $1,054 |
| Latanoprost | 85 | $1,023 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 29 | $607 |
| Timolol Maleate | 40 | $448 |
| Ofloxacin | 36 | $414 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 18 | $235 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Pelham
- Mark SchaefferHoover$470K
- Kelly NicholsBirmingham$231K
- Benjamin KachelmanFlorence$101K
- Neena JamesHuntsville$74K
- Tracey Schroeder SwartzHuntsville$69K
- Jack SchaefferHoover$60K
- Leo SemesBirmingham$60K
- Brooke KaplanMountain Brk$54K
- Patricia FulmerHuntsville$45K
- David SchaefferHoover$45K
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.