James Ducklo
Optometrist · Nashville, TNNPI 1194764365
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,497 of the $7,415 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 62.9% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,697 and has fallen 80.3% since, to $532 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in TN 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 80 payments — averaging $92.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$5K
- Alcon$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$553
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$430
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$372
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$133
- plus $43 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,90039%
- Food & beverage$4,49761%
- Gifts$170%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 30 | $4,662 |
| Alcon | 25 | $1,222 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 9 | $553 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 7 | $430 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $372 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- CVI Contact Lens$1,883
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$1,227
- Tecnis IOL$400
- Precision 1$365
- Precision7$238
- INFUSE$216
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$212
- Tecnis Simplicity$133
- MIEBO$125
- XIIDRA$125
- DAILIES TOTAL1$125
- TOTAL30$125
- Onefit Contact Lens$118
- Acuvue$117
- MyDay Contact Lens$112
How this compares
$7,415 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,122 optometrist providers in Tennessee.
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.
Other optometrist in Nashville
- Jeffrey SonsinoNashville$48K
- Richard DurocherNashville$18K
- Julianne KochNashville$8K
- C Wade Hyatt IiiNashville$8K
- David ZimmermanNashville$8K
- Bernard TekieleNashville$6K
- Jessica DurhamNashville$6K
- Marianne JohnsonNashville$6K
- William Parsley IiiNashville$6K
- Christopher LievensMemphis$566K
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.