Dana Howard
Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1194989764
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 307 payments — averaging $117.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$33K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Optos, Inc.$223
- AbbVie$179
- Coopervision Inc.$152
- Novartis$105
- plus $490 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$17,29048%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,00025%
- Travel & lodging$3,47810%
- Food & beverage$6,29317%
- Entertainment$1500%
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 | 194 | $32,793 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 74 | $2,268 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $223 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $179 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $152 |
| Novartis | 5 | $105 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $104 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $82 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $81 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $72 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $41 |
| Synergeyes, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
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$22,841
- DAILIES TOTAL1$7,020
- Precision 1$5,500
- AIR OPTIX$4,103
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$2,500
- Air Optix plus HydraGlyde$2,500
- Acuvue$543
- Wavelight Refractive Suite$143
- MyDay Contact Lens$130
- P200DTx$105
- P200T$105
- P200TE$105
- P200TxE$105
- Clear Care$103
- Precision7$100
How this compares
$36,211 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
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 Houston
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$3.2M
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$3M
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$766K
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$568K
- Kathryn RichdaleHouston$288K
- Nancy StephensHouston$241K
- Jelita Green-DathorneHouston$232K
- Eric RitcheyHouston$151K
- Maria WalkerHouston$128K
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.