Jacquelyn Bongard, OD
Optometrist · Saint Louis, MONPI 1588341192
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Valley Contax, Inc. at 47.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,018 and has fallen 74.0% since, to $1,044 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MO 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 88 payments — averaging $68.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Valley Contax, Inc.$3K
- Alcon$816
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$673
- Coopervision Inc.$592
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$357
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$109
- plus $606 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,00017%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5008%
- Travel & lodging$1,64627%
- Food & beverage$2,66944%
- Entertainment$2023%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Valley Contax, Inc. | 3 | $2,865 |
| Alcon | 22 | $816 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 16 | $673 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 11 | $592 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $357 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $109 |
| Visionary Optics LLC | 1 | $106 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 4 | $103 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $102 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $72 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 3 | $69 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
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.
- Clariti Contact Lens$350
- AIR OPTIX$350
- Acuvue$350
- TRYPTYR$105
How this compares
$6,018 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,030 optometrist providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 13 | $58 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Saint Louis
- John McGrealSaint Louis$126K
- Ariel CerenzieSaint Louis$76K
- Paul LuongSaint Louis$44K
- Robert EnsleySaint Louis$38K
- Andrew RoyerSaint Louis$23K
- Robert BrusattiSaint Louis$20K
- Edward BennettSaint Louis$13K
- Craig SorceSaint Louis$8K
- Julie DekinderSaint Louis$8K
- Erin SullivanSaint Louis$6K
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.