Cynthia Burlingame
Optometrist · Overland Park, KSNPI 1477524932
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,073 of the $3,859 with a category attached, or 79.6%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 37.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,479 and has fallen 66.9% since, to $490 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in KS 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 94 payments — averaging $41.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$1K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$562
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$382
- Coopervision Inc.$307
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$189
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$185
- plus $806 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$76920%
- Food & beverage$3,07380%
- Gifts$170%
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 | 20 | $1,428 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $562 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 10 | $382 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 16 | $307 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $189 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 9 | $185 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $169 |
| Heru, Inc. | 1 | $152 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $132 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $11 |
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.
- AIR OPTIX$1,102
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$1,102
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$1,102
- BIOTRUE$246
- ULTRA$246
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$246
- INFUSE$233
- Heru HMD$152
- INVELTYS$126
- Rhopressa$122
- Rocklatan$122
- RESTASIS$113
How this compares
$3,859 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 567 optometrist providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 31 | $304 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 11 | $154 |
| Timolol Maleate | 16 | $141 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Overland Park
- Vincent PennipedeOverland Park$16K
- Mark SiefkesOverland Park$11K
- Katherine PainterOverland Park$7K
- Jared JaynesOverland Park$5K
- Anthony BrandOverland Park$5K
- Jay BurlingameOverland Park$5K
- Neal EylarOverland Park$5K
- Dawn BircherOverland Park$4K
- Liron BittanOverland Park$4K
- L BeslerOverland Park$4K
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.