Danielle Goldberg
Optometrist · Norwalk, CTNPI 1710430061
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.7%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 56.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,140 and has fallen 71.0% since, to $1,202 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CT 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.
Across 186 payments — averaging $59.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$6K
- Coopervision Inc.$995
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$862
- Glaukos Corporation$639
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$497
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$389
- plus $1K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,66024%
- Travel & lodging$1,91817%
- Food & beverage$6,52959%
- Gifts$190%
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 | 44 | $6,285 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 32 | $995 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 24 | $862 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 5 | $639 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 18 | $497 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 17 | $389 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $279 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $250 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 5 | $201 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $95 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $94 |
| Novartis | 5 | $86 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $57 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| LKC Technologies, 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.
- Precision 1$3,260
- AIR OPTIX$1,370
- DAILIES$860
- MIEBO$375
- XIIDRA$375
- DAILIES TOTAL1$245
- TOTAL30$224
- KXL1B-CE-marked KXLsystem$143
- KXL System$143
- Photrexa$131
- TRYPTYR$125
- Oxervate$125
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$124
- CEQUA$121
- Precision7$117
- XDEMVY$115
- MiSight Contact Lens$115
- AdaptDx$114
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$112
- INFUSE$112
How this compares
$11,127 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 574 optometrist providers in Connecticut.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 63 | $1,069 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 18 | $297 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 16 | $153 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Norwalk
- Danielle FederNorwalk$6K
- David FolmanNorwalk$5K
- Mary Beth SchanzNorwalk$4K
- Joseph ThimonsFairfield$340K
- Inna LazarOld Greenwich$147K
- Jennifer StewartNew Canaan$91K
- Maria PribisStamford$78K
- Michael CooperWest Hartford$44K
- Joseph PavanoNew Britain$22K
- Susan JanikWest Hartford$20K
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.