RxDoctor Payments Data

Ethan Ly

Optometrist · Franklin, TNNPI 1649290701

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,883 of the $6,862 with a category attached, or 85.7%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 38.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,490 and has fallen 77.3% since, to $566 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in TN 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.

$6,862in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 130 payments — averaging $52.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$3K
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$984
  • Coopervision Inc.$914
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$662
  • AbbVie$344
  • TG Therapeutics, Inc.$242
  • plus $1K from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$97814%
  • Food & beverage$5,88386%

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

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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.

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

$6,862 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,122 optometrist providers in Tennessee.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,373
Medicare patients
18
Services billed
30

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.

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