RxDoctor Payments Data

Jacqueline Theis

Optometrist · Richmond, VANPI 1689015901

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (46.1%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 44.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $42,942, more than ten times the $1,500 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in VA 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.

$79,973in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 168 payments — averaging $476.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$36K
  • Alcon$19K
  • Alcon Research LLC$9K
  • Dompe US, Inc.$4K
  • AbbVie$4K
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
  • plus $7K from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$26,80034%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$36,90246%
  • Travel & lodging$8,66011%
  • Food & beverage$7,2739%
  • Education$2000%
  • Entertainment$1390%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$79,973 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.

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