Christine Beiling Sheerer
Optometrist · Medina, OHNPI 1396779849
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,280 of the $3,391 with a category attached, or 67.2%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 50.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,019 and has fallen 87.7% since, to $125 in 2024.
Across 130 payments — averaging $26.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$644
- Novartis$246
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$161
- AbbVie$112
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$105
- plus $415 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,01830%
- Food & beverage$2,28067%
- Gifts$191%
- Entertainment$742%
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 | 55 | $1,709 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 29 | $644 |
| Novartis | 12 | $246 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $161 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $112 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $105 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $92 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $52 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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$500
- Precision 1$500
- Acuvue$242
- INFUSE$125
How this compares
$3,391 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.
Other optometrist in Medina
- Mile BrujicBowling Green$1.3M
- Gregory DenaeyerColumbus$846K
- Cory LappinMontgomery$367K
- Chris SmileyColumbus$305K
- Thomas ChesterCleveland$300K
- Carly RoseCincinnati$203K
- Wendy HallierReynoldsburg$200K
- John LahrCincinnati$145K
- Erin RueffColumbus$131K
- Mary YackeyCincinnati$122K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.