RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Smith

Optometrist · Lakewood, CONPI 1730229170

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,103 of the $5,153 with a category attached, or 79.6%. Alcon accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,353 and has fallen 86.0% since, to $328 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CO 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.

$5,153in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $69.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Alcon$4K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$456
  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$402
  • Shire North American Group Inc$155
  • Sight Sciences, Inc.$137
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$121
  • plus $297 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,02720%
  • Food & beverage$4,10380%
  • Entertainment$220%

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

$5,153 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,025 optometrist providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,069
Medicare patients
172
Services billed
233

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Latanoprost36$393

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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