RxDoctor Payments Data

Dana Ondrias

Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1871598060

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (51.6%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 66.7% of it on its own, with 23 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $5,776 and has fallen 66.5% since, to $1,932 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in TX 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.

$19,014in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 166 payments — averaging $114.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$13K
  • Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$2K
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$784
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$710
  • AbbVie$657
  • Carl Zeiss Meditec Cataract Technology Inc.$368
  • plus $2K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$9,81352%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4202%
  • Travel & lodging$1,2797%
  • Food & beverage$7,50239%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$19,014 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.

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