Has Christine Bowman received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $3,693 in general payments to Christine Bowman across 104 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Christine Bowman did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Christine Bowman come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Christine Bowman

Optometrist · Lancaster, OHNPI 1245365063

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 95.6% of the total across 104 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 15.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.

$3,693in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 104 payments — averaging $35.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$586
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$411
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$394
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$365
Coopervision Inc.$290
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$266
plus $1K from 13 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,53196%
Entertainment$1634%

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	8	$586
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	10	$411
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$394
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$365
Coopervision Inc.	6	$290
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	14	$266
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	11	$218
AbbVie(2 entities)	12	$202
Topcon Healthcare, Inc.	1	$180
Optos, Inc.	3	$163
Lombart Brothers, Inc.	3	$139
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	8	$129
Novartis	6	$92
ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC	2	$91
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$60
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$41
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	1	$29
Harrow Eye, LLC	1	$25
LKC Technologies, Inc.	1	$13

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

$3,693 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.

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Other optometrist in Lancaster

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Wendy HallierReynoldsburg$200K
John LahrCincinnati$145K
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Mary YackeyCincinnati$122K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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