Ilya Volk
Optometrist · Encinitas, CANPI 1285283275
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 62 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,067 and has fallen 74.6% since, to $271 in 2025.
Across 62 payments — averaging $47.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$462
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$352
- AbbVie$333
- Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$282
- Alcon$257
- Glaukos Corporation$154
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,915100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $462 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $352 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $333 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $282 |
| Alcon | 7 | $257 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $154 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $132 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Amgen | 1 | $117 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $114 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Novartis | 1 | $22 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
- enVista MX60 IOL$223
- Oxervate$132
- DEXTENZA$125
- LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL) AND LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$125
- MIEBO$121
- XIIDRA$121
- Rocklatan$120
- Rhopressa$120
- EYSUVIS$119
- TEPEZZA$117
- VUITY$116
- IC-8 Apthera IOL$103
How this compares
$2,915 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Encinitas
- James OwenEncinitas$73K
- 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).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.