Gabrielle Szwajca
Optometrist · Des Plaines, ILNPI 1316396179
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (56.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 62.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,462, more than ten times the $66 reported in 2019.
Across 27 payments — averaging $78.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Alcon$409
- Glaukos Corporation$147
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$122
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$81
- Optos, Inc.$20
- plus $15 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$25012%
- Travel & lodging$67132%
- Food & beverage$1,19256%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 12 | $1,319 |
| Alcon | 7 | $409 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $147 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $122 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $81 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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
$2,113 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,257 optometrist providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 21 | $483 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 24 | $262 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Des Plaines
- Pamela LoweChicago$447K
- Jeffrey LewisChampaign$394K
- Adeyinka AdewaleGodfrey$391K
- Michael ChaglasianChicago$367K
- Jessilin QuintChicago$366K
- Jullian CerasuoloChicago$329K
- Steven EidenDeerfield$259K
- Peter KehoeGalesburg$167K
- Gulroop HansraDowners Grove$151K
- Treacy AdamoHinsdale$94K
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.