Dirk Beyer
Optometrist · Hamilton, MTNPI 1699722249
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $2,250 of the $3,504 with a category attached, or 64.2%. Alcon accounts for 85.9% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,821 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $18 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MT 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 31 payments — averaging $113.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$3K
- Glaukos Corporation$151
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$120
- Coopervision Inc.$96
- Optos, Inc.$74
- AbbVie$36
- plus $18 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,25064%
- Food & beverage$1,18034%
- Entertainment$742%
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 | 23 | $3,009 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $151 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 2 | $96 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $36 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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$1,133
- DAILIES$750
- TOTAL30$645
- DAILIES TOTAL1$133
- Izervay$120
How this compares
$3,504 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 184 optometrist providers in Montana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 13 | $1,641 |
| Latanoprost | 85 | $1,259 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 25 | $848 |
| Travoprost | 11 | $477 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 12 | $163 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 12 | $68 |
| Timolol Maleate | 14 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Hamilton
- Christopher QuallsHamilton$2K
- Mariah MitmanHamilton$2K
- Robert WilkinsHamilton$772
- David BauerBillings$4K
- Marisa HessLivingston$4K
- Joseph VincentGreat Falls$3K
- Justine RedlinGreat Falls$3K
- Travis WhittBozeman$2K
- Jennipher HarperBozeman$2K
- Matthew DooperGreat Falls$2K
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.