James Upton
Optometrist · Springfield, MONPI 1356074090
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 21 payments — averaging $48.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$257
- Coopervision Inc.$189
- Glaukos Corporation$167
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$133
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$85
- Rxsight Inc$83
- plus $96 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,009100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $257 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $189 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $167 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $85 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $83 |
| Alcon | 1 | $45 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$133
- iStent Infinite$128
- iDoseTR$128
How this compares
$1,009 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 22 | $12,618 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 12 | $8,701 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 20 | $8,595 |
| Timolol MaleateTimolol Maleate/Pf | 12 | $2,446 |
| Latanoprost | 219 | $1,803 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 60 | $805 |
| Timolol Maleate | 44 | $541 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 39 | $540 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 12 | $141 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 11 | $138 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Springfield
- Chad CarterSpringfield$9K
- Stephen RiceSpringfield$9K
- Anthony VerachtertKansas City$959K
- Joseph CastellanoSaint Louis$369K
- Richard WilsonRaytown$355K
- Lawrence ReedRaytown$317K
- Andrew BiondoKirkwood$300K
- Nicholas CastellanoSaint Louis$171K
- Geoffrey PowellKansas City$154K
- John McGrealSaint Louis$126K
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.