Has Dana Salgado received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $119,339 in general payments to Dana Salgado across 270 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Dana Salgado did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Dana Salgado come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Dana Salgado

Optometrist · Albany, NYNPI 1487666251

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $81,750 of the $119,339 with a category attached, or 68.5%. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. accounts for 84.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $67,185 and has fallen 67.4% since, to $21,934 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NY 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.

$119,339in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 270 payments — averaging $442.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$101K
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$16K
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
Sight Sciences, Inc.$273
Glaukos Corporation$258
Astellas Pharma US Inc$115
plus $474 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,1456%
Speaking & faculty fees$81,75069%
Travel & lodging$23,27720%
Food & beverage$7,1506%
Gifts$170%

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
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	209	$101,305
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	42	$15,878
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	7	$1,036
Sight Sciences, Inc.	2	$273
Glaukos Corporation	2	$258
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$115
Alcon	1	$115
AbbVie	1	$109
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$79
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	1	$68
LKC Technologies, Inc.	1	$67
Coopervision Inc.	1	$20
Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.	1	$17

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

$119,339 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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