Has Denise Whittam received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $342,725 in general payments to Denise Whittam across 644 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 Denise Whittam 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 Denise Whittam 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.

Denise Whittam

Optometrist · New York, NYNPI 1699742403

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $272,417 of the $342,725 with a category attached, or 79.5%. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. accounts for 98.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $116,178, more than ten times the $5,691 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in NY 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.

$342,725in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 644 payments — averaging $532.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$339K
Alcon$2K
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$802
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$242
Glaukos Corporation$230
Integra Lifesciences Corporation$201
plus $452 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7,4752%
Speaking & faculty fees$272,41779%
Travel & lodging$46,12713%
Food & beverage$16,7055%

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.	607	$339,072
Alcon	15	$1,725
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	10	$802
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$242
Glaukos Corporation	2	$230
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$201
AbbVie(2 entities)	3	$188
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$122
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$96
Coopervision Inc.	1	$46

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

$342,725 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.

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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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