Ellen Ho
Optometrist · Chester, VANPI 1396958716
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $22.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$840
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$474
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$316
- Alcon$230
- Notal Vision, Inc.$225
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$161
- plus $476 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2258%
- Food & beverage$2,25883%
- Education$1987%
- Gifts$191%
- Entertainment$221%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 28 | $840 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 27 | $474 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 15 | $316 |
| Alcon | 15 | $230 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 1 | $225 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $161 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $76 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| Novartis | 2 | $32 |
| Tearlab Corp | 2 | $32 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$2,722 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
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 | 18 | $857 |
| Latanoprost | 98 | $661 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 16 | $396 |
| Timolol Maleate | 38 | $167 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Chester
- Timothy PolingRoanoke$1.4M
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Sushil JainFairfax$201K
- Stacy MartinsonVirginia Beach$110K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Kiera HaganFredericksburg$51K
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.