Has Edward Laubach received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,880 in general payments to Edward Laubach across 182 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 Edward Laubach 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 Edward Laubach 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.

Edward Laubach

Optometrist · Pleasanton, CANPI 1104853696

Payments from drug & device makers

$10,880in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 182 payments — averaging $59.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$4K
Coopervision Inc.$3K
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$775
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$690
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$635
AbbVie$369
plus $2K from 17 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$2,03319%
Food & beverage$8,60679%
Entertainment$2422%

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	35	$3,723
Coopervision Inc.	40	$2,586
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	12	$775
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	20	$690
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	15	$635
AbbVie(2 entities)	10	$369
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	8	$321
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	8	$300
Optos, Inc.	1	$242
Heru, Inc.	1	$165
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$165
Sight Sciences, Inc.	4	$156
Dompe US, Inc.	2	$146
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	5	$141
Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$135
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	3	$80
Thea Pharma Inc.	3	$64
Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.	2	$41
Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$40
Harrow Eye, LLC	1	$30
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$29
Novartis	2	$27
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	1	$22

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

$10,880 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.

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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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