Daniel Daugherty
Optometrist · Akron, OHNPI 1336630383
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 121 payments — averaging $38.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$3K
- Coopervision Inc.$475
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$411
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$233
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$130
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$127
- plus $723 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,01222%
- Food & beverage$3,52876%
- Entertainment$772%
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 | 41 | $2,517 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 12 | $475 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 22 | $411 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 7 | $233 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $130 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 4 | $127 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $121 |
| Novartis | 6 | $114 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $105 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $32 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $20 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $9 |
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$1,375
- AIR OPTIX$642
- TOTAL30$230
- Precision7$123
- Rocklatan$122
- Rhopressa$122
- Clariti Contact Lens$116
- ILUX$111
- MyDay Contact Lens$103
How this compares
$4,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.
Other optometrist in Akron
- Richard HultsAkron$84K
- Michele CiancioloAkron$12K
- Katherine BickleGranville$3M
- Jennifer FogtColumbus$1.9M
- Jason MillerPowell$1.4M
- Mile BrujicBowling Green$1.3M
- William LayWesterville$891K
- Gregory DenaeyerColumbus$846K
- Thomas ChesterCleveland$786K
- Loretta Szczotka-FlynnCleveland$388K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.