Clay Mattson
Optometrist · Nicholasville, KYNPI 1134132517
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $58,142 of the $92,844 with a category attached, or 62.6%. Alcon accounts for 80.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $35,255 and has fallen 99.6% since, to $128 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in KY 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 187 payments — averaging $496.49 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$75K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$13K
- Alcon Research LLC$4K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$481
- Glaukos Corporation$347
- Novartis$118
- plus $91 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$58,14263%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,21510%
- Travel & lodging$18,92220%
- Food & beverage$6,4407%
- Education$1250%
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 | 172 | $75,089 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $13,012 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 2 | $3,705 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $481 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $347 |
| Novartis | 1 | $118 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $8 |
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$33,682
- AIR OPTIX$18,409
- DAILIES TOTAL1$17,115
- Precision 1$13,491
- VISUSCOUT 100$13,012
- TOTAL30$11,292
- AIR OPTIX Aqua$5,750
- ILUX$3,574
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$1,101
- CEQUA$475
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$443
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix$367
- XELPROS$352
- iStent inject W$125
- IACCESS$125
- XIIDRA$118
- Clareon$116
How this compares
$92,844 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 712 optometrist providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 12 | $14,777 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 13 | $928 |
| Latanoprost | 119 | $877 |
| Timolol Maleate | 34 | $370 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 13 | $128 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Nicholasville
- Paul KarpeckiLexington$3.6M
- Bilal AhmadLexington$150K
- Ben LeonardCalvert City$75K
- Lee PeplinskiLouisville$74K
- Austin LifferthLouisville$72K
- Christopher KucLexington$52K
- Kristine Kerestan GarbigWilder$51K
- Renee ReederPikeville$27K
- Karoline MunsonFrankfort$26K
- Aaron McNultyLouisville$22K
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.