Irene Frantzis
Optometrist · New York, NYNPI 1518319060
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $3,000 of the $3,746 with a category attached, or 80.1%. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 95.6% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $3,588 and has fallen 99.4% since, to $23 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 11 payments — averaging $340.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$4K
- Glaukos Corporation$49
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$34
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$33
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$24
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$23
Across 82 payments — averaging $8039.55 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.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$599K
- Alcon Research LLC$61K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,00080%
- Travel & lodging$47113%
- Food & beverage$2767%
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. | 6 | $3,583 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $49 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $23 |
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$3,471
How this compares
$3,746 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.
Other optometrist in New York
- Susan ResnickNew York$463K
- Denise WhittamNew York$343K
- Jennifer TsaiNew York$275K
- Sophia VisanjiNew York$233K
- Jason ComptonNew York$181K
- Richard MadonnaNew York$75K
- George ZikosNew York$72K
- Craig TischNew York$59K
- Arthur JungNew York$50K
- Milly MuiNew York$46K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.