Jeffrey Swafford, OD
Optometrist · Hendersonville, NCNPI 1144330242
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (59.8%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 97.7% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $36,176 and has fallen 98.7% since, to $481 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NC 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 130 payments — averaging $401.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$51K
- Alcon$513
- Optos, Inc.$180
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$135
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$126
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$121
- plus $140 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,17960%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00010%
- Travel & lodging$12,36424%
- Food & beverage$3,4147%
- Entertainment$1800%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 94 | $50,922 |
| Alcon | 8 | $513 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $180 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $135 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $126 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $121 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $28 |
| Novartis | 1 | $21 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Non-Product Brand Specific$38,795
- Multiple Brands Contact Lens$7,486
- Clariti Contact Lens$2,500
- TOTAL30$250
- MyDay Contact Lens$105
How this compares
$52,137 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 24 | $1,237 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 13 | $263 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Hendersonville
- Crystal BrimerWilmington$920K
- Osama SaidRaleigh$597K
- Ryan CorteAsheville$569K
- Sanjay PatelApex$518K
- Sean SmolenyakRaleigh$512K
- Rachael WrubleBelmont$228K
- Lisa GreeneArden$186K
- Jennifer LyerlyMorrisville$164K
- Timothy PoirierKnightdale$130K
- Randall ThomasConcord$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.