Ester Kohen
Optometrist · Arlington, VANPI 1376925032
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 93.2% of the total across 96 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,334 and has fallen 64.3% since, to $834 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 96 payments — averaging $67.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Alcon$787
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$774
- Coopervision Inc.$629
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$344
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$289
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$2504%
- Food & beverage$6,05693%
- Entertainment$1913%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 24 | $1,450 |
| Alcon | 7 | $787 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $774 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $629 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $344 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $289 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $286 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 9 | $258 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $217 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $210 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $209 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $191 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $168 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $167 |
| Novartis | 2 | $142 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 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.
- LUMIGAN$476
- DAILIES TOTAL1$380
- Precision 1$373
- MiSight Contact Lens$348
- XDEMVY$344
- VUITY$252
- BEPREVE$249
- ALREX$249
- TOTAL30$249
- VYZULTA$247
- Rhopressa$245
- Rocklatan$245
- RESTASIS$238
- XIIDRA$232
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$208
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$208
- DAILIES$155
- Acuvue$146
- Zerviate$125
- CEQUA$124
How this compares
$6,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 11 | $345 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Arlington
- Melissa OgdenArlington$10K
- Sara VarghaiArlington$7K
- Roshni PatelArlington$7K
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Walter SchlabachHarrisonburg$31K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.