RxDoctor Payments Data

Jana Souza

Optometrist · Hilo, HINPI 1598913121

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.5%), travel and lodging and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 62.7% of it on its own, with 18 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $9,372 and has fallen 78.0% since, to $2,063 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in HI 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.

$15,853in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 197 payments — averaging $80.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$10K
  • Glaukos Corporation$1K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$613
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$509
  • Amgen$495
  • plus $2K from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$7,55348%
  • Food & beverage$8,16752%
  • Entertainment$1331%

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

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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

$15,853 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 310 optometrist providers in Hawaii.

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