Emily Bennett, OD
Optometrist · Midlothian, VANPI 1245856970
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,060 of the $6,994 with a category attached, or 72.4%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 30.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,971 and has fallen 53.6% since, to $1,379 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in VA 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 118 payments — averaging $59.27 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$659
- Alcon$456
- AbbVie$367
- Optos, Inc.$262
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,67124%
- Food & beverage$5,06072%
- Entertainment$2624%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 18 | $2,145 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 32 | $1,232 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 8 | $659 |
| Alcon | 6 | $456 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $367 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $262 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 9 | $255 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $252 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $233 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 3 | $187 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $158 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $152 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 4 | $75 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $59 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $52 |
| Novartis | 2 | $42 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Amgen | 1 | $27 |
| Oasis Medical, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Acuvue$1,858
- INFUSE$603
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$524
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$524
- LIPIFLOW SYSTEM ACTIVATOR (DISPOSABLE)$415
- NFC-700$262
- DAILIES TOTAL1$249
- Precision 1$249
- TOTAL30$249
- MIEBO$240
- XIIDRA$240
- DURYSTA$231
- Precision7$131
- Prokera$129
- CEQUA$125
- LUMIGAN$124
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$124
- XDEMVY$122
- BTOD$119
- VUITY$118
How this compares
$6,994 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 31 | $886 |
| Latanoprost | 77 | $793 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 26 | $303 |
| Timolol Maleate | 24 | $233 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Midlothian
- Brian SpittleMidlothian$6K
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Walter SchlabachHarrisonburg$31K
- Mark AbrahamFalls Church$30K
- David TangVirginia Beach$29K
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.