Emily Gottschalk, OD
Optometrist · Pittsford, NYNPI 1639899958
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (49.6%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Valley Contax, Inc. at 59.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,412 and has fallen 73.9% since, to $891 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 43 payments — averaging $115.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Valley Contax, Inc.$3K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$344
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$263
- Coopervision Inc.$257
- Alcon$194
- Visionary Optics LLC$175
- plus $795 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3507%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1754%
- Travel & lodging$1,88738%
- Food & beverage$2,47250%
- Entertainment$952%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valley Contax, Inc. | 3 | $2,949 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $344 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $263 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 6 | $257 |
| Alcon | 3 | $194 |
| Visionary Optics LLC | 1 | $175 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $175 |
| Amgen | 2 | $129 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $115 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $59 |
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
$4,978 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.
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 | 12 | $3,749 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 13 | $1,851 |
| Fluorometholone | 12 | $1,287 |
| Latanoprost | 88 | $1,228 |
| Timolol Maleate | 19 | $761 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 14 | $438 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 11 | $219 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 15 | $191 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Pittsford
- Roy KlineLake Katrine$822K
- Susan ResnickNew York$463K
- Murray FingeretHewlett$374K
- Albert MorierSlingerlands$347K
- Denise WhittamNew York$343K
- Justin BazanBrooklyn$303K
- Jennifer TsaiNew York$275K
- Alexander KabiriQueens Village$268K
- Sophia VisanjiNew York$233K
- Jason ComptonNew York$181K
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.