David Ardaya
Optometrist · Whittier, CANPI 1356370712
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 74 payments — averaging $422.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$23K
- Alcon$5K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$135
- Optos, Inc.$112
- Glaukos Corporation$75
- plus $176 from 4 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $16,046 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Coopervision Inc.$16K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,25040%
- Travel & lodging$1,71621%
- Food & beverage$3,07938%
- Entertainment$1121%
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. | 4 | $23,116 |
| Alcon | 41 | $5,309 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 20 | $2,336 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $75 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $46 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $32 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $26 |
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$2,500
- Precision 1$625
- DAILIES TOTAL1$619
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$527
- CVI Contact Lens$518
- MyDay Contact Lens$504
- AcrySof$311
- MiSight Contact Lens$140
- Clareon$136
- Tecnis Simplicity$135
- P200DTx$112
- P200T$112
- P200TE$112
- P200TxE$112
How this compares
$31,258 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 14 | $1,741 |
| Latanoprost | 315 | $1,721 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 102 | $1,678 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 36 | $257 |
| Timolol Maleate | 24 | $191 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 13 | $136 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Whittier
- Meng LinBerkeley$6.9M
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$6.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- David Kasanoffla Mesa$1M
- Colton HeinrichFullerton$987K
- Elsa PaoOakland$910K
- Keith WanSan Diego$887K
- Selena ChanSan Francisco$677K
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
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.