Christopher Ruzicka, OD
Optometrist · Concord, CANPI 1992813414
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (57.3%), food and beverage and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. accounts for 69.4% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,875, more than ten times the $123 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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 33 payments — averaging $140.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$3K
- Coopervision Inc.$289
- Optos, Inc.$242
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$240
- Glaukos Corporation$222
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$221
- plus $201 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,64957%
- Food & beverage$1,72337%
- Education$70%
- Entertainment$2425%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 20 | $3,206 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $289 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $242 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $240 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $222 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $221 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Alcon | 2 | $38 |
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.
- Acuvue$2,883
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$483
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$483
- NFC-700$242
- INFUSE$236
- MyDay Contact Lens$134
- INFUSE MULTIFOCAL$124
- VABYSMO$122
- BIOTRUE$102
- ULTRA$102
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$102
How this compares
$4,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Concord
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- 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.