Has Daniel Ahrens received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,438 in general payments to Daniel Ahrens across 35 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 Daniel Ahrens 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 Daniel Ahrens 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.

Daniel Ahrens

Optometrist · Blue Island, ILNPI 1700299658

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,438in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $69.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$1K
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$250
Glaukos Corporation$137
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$133
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$108
Coopervision Inc.$91
plus $311 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$201%
Speaking & faculty fees$25010%
Travel & lodging$1,06344%
Food & beverage$1,10545%

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	6	$1,409
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	1	$250
Glaukos Corporation	1	$137
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	6	$133
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	3	$108
Coopervision Inc.	4	$91
ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC	2	$87
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$53
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$53
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	2	$33
Maculogix, Inc.	2	$22
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$20
AbbVie	1	$15
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	1	$14
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$13

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.

Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$137

How this compares

$2,438 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,257 optometrist providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$50,925

Medicare patients

142

Services billed

1,141

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
Cyclosporine	12	$5,240
RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost	13	$4,322
VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod	11	$2,994
Brinzolamide	13	$2,609
Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol	16	$1,835
Latanoprost	124	$1,356
Timolol Maleate	41	$291
Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat	16	$162
Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha	11	$111
Brimonidine Tartrate	17	$28

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometrist in Blue Island

Ansel JohnsonBlue Island$135K
Wilson MovicBloomington$925K
John CapellaniFranklin Park$744K
Michael ChaglasianChicago$683K
Pamela LoweChicago$447K
Jeffrey LewisChampaign$394K
Adeyinka AdewaleGodfrey$391K
Jessilin QuintChicago$380K
Yi PangChicago$363K
Alyssa AndersonRock Island$358K

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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.

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