Helen Cheng
Optometrist · San Jose, CANPI 1295967206
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $4,460 of the $5,832 with a category attached, or 76.5%. Merck accounts for 76.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,956, more than ten times the $149 reported in 2020. 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 27 payments — averaging $216.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$4K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$679
- Coopervision Inc.$378
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$146
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$100
- Optos, Inc.$32
- plus $38 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$4,46076%
- Food & beverage$1,32123%
- Gifts$190%
- Entertainment$321%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 1 | $4,460 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 12 | $679 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 8 | $378 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Alcon | 1 | $18 |
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.
- MiSight Contact Lens$110
- Acuvue$102
How this compares
$5,832 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
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.
Other optometrist in San Jose
- Vivian LookSan Jose$152K
- 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
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.