James Podschun
Optometrist · Winter Park, FLNPI 1003804121
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,318 of the $9,214 with a category attached, or 68.6%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,752 and has fallen 56.9% since, to $1,186 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in FL 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 202 payments — averaging $45.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Glaukos Corporation$2K
- Alcon$2K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$913
- Optos, Inc.$328
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00022%
- Speaking & faculty fees$501%
- Travel & lodging$6557%
- Food & beverage$6,31869%
- Gifts$170%
- Entertainment$1752%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Glaukos Corporation | 5 | $2,022 |
| Alcon | 39 | $1,568 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 31 | $1,366 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 30 | $1,066 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 19 | $913 |
| Optos, Inc. | 5 | $328 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $295 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 7 | $245 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $211 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 9 | $203 |
| Optovue, Inc. | 2 | $160 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 8 | $160 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $160 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 4 | $110 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $102 |
| Novartis | 5 | $87 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $64 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Amgen | 2 | $35 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $22 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $14 |
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.
- ULTRA$453
- BIOTRUE$350
- DAILIES TOTAL1$247
- Precision 1$244
- INFUSE$241
- Rhopressa$125
- Rocklatan$125
- MIEBO$125
- XIIDRA$125
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$125
- TOTAL30$122
- XDEMVY$122
- DAILIES$115
- CEQUA$110
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$105
- PanOptix$100
How this compares
$9,214 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
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 | 87 | $1,117 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 32 | $340 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 19 | $303 |
| Timolol Maleate | 21 | $159 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Winter Park
- Bradley GieddWinter Park$188K
- James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
- April JasperWest Palm Beach$553K
- Nora CothranLargo$505K
- Michael SluskyNorth Port$384K
- Katie SpearDefuniak Springs$361K
- Karen HoffmanOrange Park$282K
- Ashley RothMiami Beach$261K
- Jessica SteenDavie$256K
- Mark DunbarMiami$236K
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.