Francesca Sefton
Optometrist · Santa Monica, CANPI 1285159822
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (47.0%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. accounts for 71.9% of it on its own, with 20 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $15,553, more than ten times the $907 reported in 2019. 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 182 payments — averaging $108.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$14K
- Thea Pharma Inc.$858
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$587
- Alcon$474
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$455
- Shire North American Group Inc$406
- plus $3K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,25047%
- Travel & lodging$3,76319%
- Food & beverage$6,60234%
- Education$600%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 48 | $14,143 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 10 | $858 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $587 |
| Alcon | 14 | $474 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 15 | $455 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 13 | $406 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $401 |
| Novartis | 27 | $398 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $381 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 8 | $377 |
| Rxsight Inc | 8 | $337 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $259 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $150 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $122 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $57 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $55 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- CEQUA$13,478
- IYUZEH$561
- TYRVAYA$526
- XIIDRA$358
- Oxervate$261
- VUITY$228
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$163
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$163
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$163
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$163
- LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$163
- Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$150
- INFUSE$140
- BROMSITE$126
- XELPROS$126
- MIEBO$124
- TRYPTYR$123
- RESTASIS$113
- XDEMVY$107
How this compares
$19,675 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Santa Monica
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.