Gary Nance, DO
Optometrist · Memphis, TNNPI 1699706143
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,131 of the $2,373 with a category attached, or 89.8%. Alcon accounts for 68.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $603 and has fallen 88.5% since, to $69 in 2025.
Across 61 payments — averaging $38.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Optos, Inc.$368
- Eyepoint US, Inc.$118
- Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$116
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$83
- Coopervision Inc.$46
- plus $14 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,13190%
- Entertainment$24210%
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 | 49 | $1,628 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $368 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $83 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 3 | $46 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, 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.
- Precision 1$352
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$251
- P200DTx$144
- P200T$144
- P200TE$144
- P200TxE$144
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix$130
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$126
- NFC-700$126
- TOTAL30$119
- DEXYCU$118
- EYSUVIS$116
- AIR OPTIX$108
How this compares
$2,373 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,122 optometrist providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 14 | $14,793 |
| Latanoprost | 41 | $501 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Memphis
- Christopher LievensMemphis$566K
- Whitney HauserMemphis$330K
- Melvin FriedmanMemphis$108K
- Desirae BrinkleyMemphis$51K
- Abagail KirkMemphis$14K
- Bradley HinesMemphis$12K
- David EvansMemphis$12K
- Daniel FullerMemphis$8K
- Dennis MathewsMemphis$8K
- Michael GerstnerMemphis$8K
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.