Heidi Skonseng
Optometrist · St Louis Park, MNNPI 1952500951
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,227 of the $5,096 with a category attached, or 63.3%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 57.4% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $3,096, 6.9 times the $448 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in MN 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 62 payments — averaging $82.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$3K
- Alcon$846
- Glaukos Corporation$364
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$261
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$245
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$202
- plus $252 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,86937%
- Food & beverage$3,22763%
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. | 19 | $2,926 |
| Alcon | 13 | $846 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $364 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $261 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 9 | $245 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 8 | $202 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $113 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $50 |
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.
- CVI Contact Lens$1,729
- MyDay Contact Lens$339
- Clariti Contact Lens$211
- KXL System$146
- Photrexa$146
- AIR OPTIX$139
- XDEMVY$124
- SIMBRINZA$123
- Rocklatan$123
- Rhopressa$123
- Precision7$123
- DAILIES TOTAL1$123
- TOTAL30$123
- Precision 1$123
How this compares
$5,096 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 826 optometrist providers in Minnesota.
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 | 26 | $381 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in St Louis Park
- Amy SchultzSt Louis Park$3K
- Jacob LangStillwater$264K
- Britt GustafsonEden Prairie$236K
- Gina WesleyMedina$232K
- Nicholas ColatrellaSartell$84K
- Trevor FossoSartell$45K
- Mathew WalkerAlexandria$43K
- Joshua HanenMinneapolis$40K
- Zachary HollandEdina$36K
- Patrick WellikApple Valley$15K
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.