Jenny Soo Hoo
Optometrist · Monterey Park, CANPI 1124401427
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,562 of the $3,062 with a category attached, or 83.7%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 31.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,713 and has fallen 95.7% since, to $74 in 2025.
Across 111 payments — averaging $27.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$978
- AbbVie$551
- Shire North American Group Inc$232
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$232
- Novartis$219
- Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$123
- plus $727 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$50016%
- Food & beverage$2,56284%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $978 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 27 | $551 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 8 | $232 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $232 |
| Novartis | 15 | $219 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $123 |
| Alcon | 2 | $117 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $111 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $90 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 3 | $53 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $29 |
| Beaver-visitec International, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $17 |
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
$3,062 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Monterey Park
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.