Elsa Pao
Optometrist · Oakland, CANPI 1932112612
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 1,184 payments — averaging $768.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon Research LLC$891K
- Coopervision Inc.$12K
- Alcon$7K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$655
- Optos, Inc.$172
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$132
- plus $34 from 2 others
Across 158 payments — averaging $743.30 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Alcon Research LLC$117K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,94036%
- Travel & lodging$2,85835%
- Food & beverage$2,31028%
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 Research LLC | 1,128 | $890,573 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $11,732 |
| Alcon | 21 | $6,908 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 20 | $655 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $172 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 3 | $132 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- TOTAL30$3,738
- DAILIES$1,168
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$345
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$172
- NFC-700$172
- Acuvue$125
- MiSight Contact Lens$125
- Precision 1$121
- DAILIES TOTAL1$121
How this compares
$910,206 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Oakland
- Meng LinBerkeley$6.9M
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$6.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- David Kasanoffla Mesa$1M
- Colton HeinrichFullerton$987K
- Keith WanSan Diego$887K
- Selena ChanSan Francisco$677K
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jennifer ChinLos Angeles$452K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.