Christopher Lievens, OD
Optometrist · Memphis, TNNPI 1912990086
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (42.5%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 38.8% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in TN 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 962 payments — averaging $587.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$219K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$180K
- AbbVie$129K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$21K
- Thea Pharma Inc.$5K
- Heidelberg Engineering, Inc.$4K
- plus $8K from 18 others
Across 100 payments — averaging $23,633 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Alcon Research LLC$1.8M
- AbbVie$553K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$20K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$231,23341%
- Speaking & faculty fees$240,62243%
- Travel & lodging$70,09412%
- Food & beverage$23,6714%
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 | 359 | $219,379 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 246 | $180,214 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 253 | $128,925 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 31 | $20,594 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 8 | $4,769 |
| Heidelberg Engineering, Inc. | 9 | $4,209 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 15 | $3,329 |
| Amgen | 6 | $1,421 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $1,172 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 3 | $477 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $242 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $141 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 5 | $138 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $115 |
| Novartis | 1 | $107 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $40 |
| Osmotica Pharmaceutical Corp. | 1 | $23 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Maculogix, 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.
- MIEBO$164,523
- XIIDRA$148,246
- VUITY$97,107
- DAILIES$63,731
- Precision 1$53,163
- ILUX$45,862
- TOTAL30$18,011
- XDEMVY$17,288
- DAILIES TOTAL1$7,410
- Spectralis$4,065
- IYUZEH$3,652
- AIR OPTIX$2,253
- LUMIGAN$1,500
- TEPEZZA$1,287
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$1,100
- Systane$1,060
- ALPHAGAN P$675
- DURYSTA$612
- BLINK NUTRITEARS$600
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$500
How this compares
$565,620 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,122 optometrist providers in Tennessee.
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 Memphis
- Whitney HauserMemphis$330K
- Melvin FriedmanMemphis$108K
- Desirae BrinkleyMemphis$51K
- Abagail KirkMemphis$14K
- Bradley HinesMemphis$12K
- David EvansMemphis$12K
- Daniel FullerMemphis$8K
- Dennis MathewsMemphis$8K
- Michael GerstnerMemphis$8K
- Laurel RobertsMemphis$7K
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.