Hetel Bhakta
Optometrist · Lake Worth, FLNPI 1831332519
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.9%), speaking fees and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 46.2% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,399, more than ten times the $1,241 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in FL 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 163 payments — averaging $171.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$13K
- Lumenis BE Inc$6K
- Coopervision Inc.$3K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Alcon$937
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$537
- plus $3K from 19 others
Across 5 payments — averaging $914.92 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Coopervision Inc.$5K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$12,93346%
- Food & beverage$14,47352%
- Education$50%
- Gifts$2591%
- Entertainment$2371%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 35 | $12,885 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $6,040 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 15 | $2,618 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 38 | $1,659 |
| Alcon | 21 | $937 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $537 |
| Optos, Inc. | 6 | $471 |
| Optovue, Inc. | 4 | $350 |
| Amgen | 3 | $306 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $240 |
| The Walman Optical Company | 1 | $240 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $230 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $203 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $190 |
| Visionix USA, Inc | 2 | $155 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $149 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $134 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 2 | $104 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $97 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $68 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Novartis | 2 | $30 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
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.
- BIOTRUE$11,072
- M22$6,040
- INFUSE$5,891
- Boston 7$2,072
- Acuvue$852
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$461
- ULTRA$455
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$442
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$442
- NFC-700$221
- TEPEZZA$216
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$135
- XDEMVY$125
- DURYSTA$125
- BTOD$120
- INVELTYS$116
- VUITY$115
- Photrexa$114
- Oxervate$108
- OCT$102
How this compares
$27,907 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
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 | 19 | $307 |
| Timolol Maleate | 23 | $128 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Lake Worth
- James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
- April JasperWest Palm Beach$553K
- Nora CothranLargo$505K
- Michael SluskyNorth Port$384K
- Katie SpearDefuniak Springs$361K
- Karen HoffmanOrange Park$282K
- Ashley RothMiami Beach$261K
- Jessica SteenDavie$256K
- Mark DunbarMiami$236K
- Robert DavisPembroke Pines$217K
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.