Jennifer Kerns
Optometrist · Spokane, WANPI 1144228982
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.9%), food and beverage and ownership interests — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 69.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,560 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $31 in 2025.
Across 31 payments — averaging $85.08 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$454
- US Retina LLC$143
- Coopervision Inc.$90
- AbbVie$37
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$31
- plus $45 from 2 others
Across 21 payments — averaging $3073.87 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Alcon Research LLC$65K
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50057%
- Food & beverage$99538%
- Ownership interest$1435%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 13 | $1,837 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $454 |
| US Retina LLC | 5 | $143 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $37 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $22 |
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.
- DAILIES TOTAL1$1,500
- Precision 1$1,500
How this compares
$2,637 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,267 optometrist providers in Washington.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 23 | $21,147 |
| MieboPerfluorohexyloctane/Pf | 14 | $13,351 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 16 | $407 |
| Latanoprost | 37 | $273 |
| Timolol Maleate | 20 | $148 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis | $37 | $21,14723 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Miebo | $454 | $13,35114 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 1,267 optometrist providers in Washington.
Other optometrist in Spokane
- Grant HardanSpokane$5K
- David KadingKirkland$397K
- Peter BergenskeOtis Orchards$355K
- Casey ClaypoolSpokane Valley$323K
- Charles ClaytonBellevue$195K
- Herminder BoparaiBellevue$131K
- Rajiv PatelVancouver$118K
- Alan ChousTacoma$115K
- Roya HabibiSeattle$109K
- Bryan HeitmeyerKent$67K
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.