Ivan Wong
Optometrist · Danbury, CTNPI 1023170073
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 90.3% of the total across 173 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 32.7% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in CT 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 173 payments — averaging $33.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Alcon$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$726
- Coopervision Inc.$436
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$366
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$314
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5419%
- Food & beverage$5,21390%
- Gifts$190%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 50 | $1,888 |
| Alcon | 39 | $1,001 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 14 | $726 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 17 | $436 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 23 | $366 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $314 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $289 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $200 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 7 | $143 |
| Philips North America LLC | 3 | $125 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $120 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| 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.
- INFUSE$349
- Prokera$314
- AmnioGraft$314
- Acuvue$263
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$234
- BIOTRUE$125
- ULTRA$125
- TOTAL30$125
- VUITY$120
- Trilogy 100$118
How this compares
$5,773 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 574 optometrist providers in Connecticut.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 57 | $502 |
| Latanoprost | 12 | $99 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Danbury
- Joseph ThimonsFairfield$340K
- Inna LazarOld Greenwich$147K
- Jennifer StewartNew Canaan$91K
- Maria PribisStamford$78K
- Michael CooperWest Hartford$44K
- Joseph PavanoNew Britain$22K
- Susan JanikWest Hartford$20K
- Donald HigginsPlainville$18K
- Richard NowakEast Windsor$15K
- Barbara DuneHartford$14K
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.