Has Daniel Hoover received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,373 in general payments to Daniel Hoover across 246 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 Hoover 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 Hoover 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 Hoover

Optometrist · Littleton, CONPI 1386959104

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,675 of the $12,373 with a category attached, or 70.1%. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. accounts for 67.4% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,552, 2.9 times the $1,210 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in CO 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.

$12,373in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 246 payments — averaging $50.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$8K
Alcon$2K
Coopervision Inc.$554
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$364
Glaukos Corporation$297
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$184
plus $276 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,67522%
Travel & lodging$1,0158%
Food & beverage$8,67570%
Education$70%

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
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	135	$8,337
Alcon	76	$2,360
Coopervision Inc.	16	$554
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	6	$364
Glaukos Corporation	6	$297
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	5	$184
Rxsight Inc	1	$142
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$134

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

$12,373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,025 optometrist providers in Colorado.

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Kent GodfreyGreenwood Village$49K
Jason OrtmanCastle Pines$45K
Scott GundersonBroomfield$43K
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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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