Jason Simonton
Optometrist · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1205035953
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 186 payments — averaging $17.78 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$834
- AbbVie$554
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$328
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$295
- Alcon$244
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$198
- plus $855 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,308100%
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. | 50 | $834 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 41 | $554 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $328 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 17 | $295 |
| Alcon | 9 | $244 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $198 |
| Novartis | 7 | $128 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $118 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 5 | $115 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 4 | $109 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $60 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $52 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $45 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $24 |
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.
- VYZULTA$125
How this compares
$3,308 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,165 optometrist providers in Pennsylvania.
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 | 108 | $38,840 |
| XdemvyLotilaner | 13 | $22,643 |
| Cyclosporine | 31 | $20,091 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 46 | $16,616 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 16 | $14,375 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 64 | $8,367 |
| TobradexTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 24 | $6,261 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 17 | $3,348 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 11 | $2,582 |
| Latanoprost | 170 | $1,557 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 33 | $1,492 |
| Timolol Maleate | 89 | $1,189 |
| Loteprednol Etabonate | 13 | $1,013 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 28 | $935 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 27 | $533 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Combigan | $554 | $55,797135 claims |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Xdemvy | $198 | $22,64313 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta | $834 | $16,61646 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $244 | $3,34817 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCLoteprednol Etabonate | $118 | $1,01313 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 2,165 optometrist providers in Pennsylvania.
Other optometrist in Pittsburgh
- Erick HendersonPittsburgh$266K
- William Vincett JrPittsburgh$57K
- Joshua ClermontPittsburgh$24K
- Jane ManlyPittsburgh$13K
- Mark ClementPittsburgh$11K
- James DeomHazle Township$793K
- Gregory CaldwellDuncansville$547K
- Glenn CorbinWyomissing$426K
- Leslie O DellNew Freedom$409K
- Kevin BistlinePlymouth Meeting$302K
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.