Howard Wang
Optometrist · Carlsbad, CANPI 1255469433
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,004 of the $9,497 with a category attached, or 84.3%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 28.7% of the total. 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 145 payments — averaging $65.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$3K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Optos, Inc.$517
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$477
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$373
- plus $2K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,13412%
- Food & beverage$8,00484%
- Entertainment$3584%
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 | 42 | $2,725 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 31 | $2,105 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 30 | $1,241 |
| Optos, Inc. | 8 | $517 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $477 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $373 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 3 | $360 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $273 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $196 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $142 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $134 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $126 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Amgen | 1 | $117 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Heru, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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.
- INFUSE$1,081
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$666
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$666
- NFC-700$333
- AdaptDx$263
- KXL System$181
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$144
- optilight$142
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$140
- TearCare$136
- MyDay Contact Lens$127
- DAILIES$127
- INFUSE SVS$124
- Prokera$122
- AmnioGraft$122
- TEPEZZA$117
- Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$113
- Syfovre$113
- BTOD$113
- Heru HMD$112
How this compares
$9,497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Carlsbad
- 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
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.