Cliff Caudill, OD
Optometrist · Pikeville, KYNPI 1841300712
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $6,078 of the $8,366 with a category attached, or 72.6%. Lumenis BE Inc accounts for 70.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $5,983 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $178 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 43 payments — averaging $194.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lumenis BE Inc$6K
- AbbVie$2K
- Alcon$247
- Coopervision Inc.$214
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$200
- Shire North American Group Inc$66
- plus $229 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,20014%
- Speaking & faculty fees$6,07873%
- Travel & lodging$190%
- Food & beverage$94011%
- Education$1292%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $5,878 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 18 | $1,533 |
| Alcon | 6 | $247 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $214 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $200 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $66 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $53 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $40 |
| Stryker | 1 | $36 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Derma Sciences, 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.
- optilight$5,878
- LUMIGAN$931
- DURYSTA$800
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$800
How this compares
$8,366 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 |
|---|---|---|
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 17 | $188 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Pikeville
- Renee ReederPikeville$27K
- James RogalaPikeville$9K
- Donald EganPikeville$5K
- Paul KarpeckiLexington$3.6M
- Bilal AhmadLexington$150K
- Clay MattsonNicholasville$93K
- Ben LeonardCalvert City$75K
- Lee PeplinskiLouisville$74K
- Austin LifferthLouisville$72K
- Christopher KucLexington$52K
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.