Elaine Steffensen
Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1356993067
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 109 payments — averaging $45.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$755
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$474
- AbbVie$365
- Harrow Eye, LLC$335
- plus $715 from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3798%
- Food & beverage$4,62692%
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 | 20 | $1,313 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 15 | $1,049 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 13 | $755 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 13 | $474 |
| AbbVie | 14 | $365 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 12 | $335 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $98 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $86 |
| Novartis | 4 | $80 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $52 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Rayner Intraocular Lenses Limited | 1 | $19 |
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$596
- AIR OPTIX$596
- INFUSE$465
- MIEBO$327
- Acuvue$292
- MyDay Contact Lens$220
- XIIDRA$218
- TOTAL30$150
- CEQUA$121
- MiSight Contact Lens$117
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$113
How this compares
$5,005 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 107 | $43,787 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 42 | $37,759 |
| XiidraLifitegrast | 32 | $28,288 |
| Cyclosporine | 24 | $10,108 |
| Latanoprost | 249 | $2,062 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 60 | $1,768 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 19 | $1,759 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 50 | $1,550 |
| Azelastine Hcl | 29 | $667 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 33 | $411 |
| Timolol Maleate | 53 | $405 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 13 | $301 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 31 | $235 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis | $365 | $81,545149 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Xiidra | $1,049 | $28,28832 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
Other optometrist in Houston
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$3.2M
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$3M
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$766K
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$568K
- Kathryn RichdaleHouston$288K
- Nancy StephensHouston$241K
- Jelita Green-DathorneHouston$232K
- Eric RitcheyHouston$151K
- Maria WalkerHouston$128K
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.