Eric White, OD
Optometrist · San Diego, CANPI 1205808045
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (55.3%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Optos, Inc. at 27.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,923 and has fallen 57.9% since, to $1,231 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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 83 payments — averaging $86.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Optos, Inc.$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$733
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$568
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$375
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$374
- plus $2K from 13 others
Across 109 payments — averaging $2810.11 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.
- AbbVie$114K
- Alcon Research LLC$88K
- Bausch Health US, LLC$60K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$44K
- Topcon Healthcare, Inc.$300
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50021%
- Travel & lodging$1,30618%
- Food & beverage$3,98555%
- Entertainment$4136%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Optos, Inc. | 8 | $1,947 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 18 | $1,522 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 4 | $733 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 8 | $568 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 13 | $375 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $374 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $276 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $178 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $169 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $167 |
| Alcon | 4 | $128 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $121 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $94 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $80 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Optovue, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- MiSight Contact Lens$827
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$457
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$457
- NFC-700$228
- LIPIFLOW SYSTEM ACTIVATOR (DISPOSABLE)$179
- TearCare$141
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$140
- BIOTRUE$123
- ULTRA$123
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$123
- VUITY$121
- INFUSE$121
- XIIDRA$120
- Acuvue$119
- DEXTENZA$118
- Oxervate$108
- MyDay Contact Lens$104
- Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$103
- Ortho-K Contact Lens$103
How this compares
$7,204 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 22 | $743 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in San Diego
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Melody TavakoliSan Diego$267K
- Brian ChouSan Diego$243K
- David GeffenSan Diego$144K
- Elliott ShapiroSan Diego$135K
- Keith WanSan Diego$87K
- Jennifer ChinnSan Diego$67K
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
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.