Frank Akers
Optometrist · Mesa, AZNPI 1285692624
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,234 of the $7,247 with a category attached, or 86.0%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 26.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,789 and has fallen 61.2% since, to $694 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in AZ 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 157 payments — averaging $46.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$824
- AbbVie$795
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$428
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$344
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,00014%
- Food & beverage$6,23486%
- Entertainment$140%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 34 | $1,922 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 30 | $1,109 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 17 | $824 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 17 | $795 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 16 | $428 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $344 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $331 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 9 | $299 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $177 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $174 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $171 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $169 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $144 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $98 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $45 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $44 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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.
- DAILIES$1,000
- Acuvue$464
- Prokera$240
- AmnioGraft$240
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$240
- Precision 7$150
- TearCare SmartLid$149
- TEARCARE(TM) (2.2) SYSTEM KIT$149
- Precision 1$142
- Ryzumvi$127
- ZEN LENS$125
- Syfovre$125
- XDEMVY$125
- VUITY$125
- EYSUVIS$125
- INVELTYS$125
- CEQUA$124
- MyDay Contact Lens$123
- Clariti Contact Lens$106
- LUMIGAN$104
How this compares
$7,247 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,134 optometrist providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluorometholone | 20 | $2,315 |
| Latanoprost | 106 | $1,091 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 14 | $279 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Mesa
- Kerry PearsonMesa$10K
- Matthew PalmerMesa$8K
- Marc BloomensteinScottsdale$1.4M
- Stephanie WooLake Havasu City$538K
- Jashpal RajasansiGilbert$104K
- Jamie KuhnGlendale$37K
- Tania SobchukLake Havasu City$32K
- Stephen CohenScottsdale$32K
- Andrew ZagelbaumScottsdale$25K
- Linda TrinhPeoria$22K
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.