Joe McMillin, OD
Optometrist · Lexington, KYNPI 1396830162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $9,386 of the $10,867 with a category attached, or 86.4%. 23 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 33.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,697 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $954 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in KY 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 299 payments — averaging $36.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$4K
- Alcon$3K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$676
- Novartis$480
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$329
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4004%
- Travel & lodging$1,0129%
- Food & beverage$9,38686%
- Gifts$190%
- Entertainment$500%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 128 | $3,686 |
| Alcon | 29 | $2,607 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 35 | $1,036 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 20 | $676 |
| Novartis | 19 | $480 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $329 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $305 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 10 | $303 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $293 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 7 | $216 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $194 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $131 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $117 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $111 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 4 | $104 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Synergeyes, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $36 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Medline Industries LP | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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$1,281
- Acuvue$840
- DAILIES TOTAL1$529
- Precision 1$529
- CEQUA$451
- AIR OPTIX$400
- MIEBO$324
- Rhopressa$224
- Rocklatan$224
- XIIDRA$223
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix$212
- Prokera$175
- AmnioGraft$175
- ACTHAR$138
- Precision7$136
- VABYSMO$131
- TOTAL30$129
- Clariti Contact Lens$116
- INFUSE$112
- XDEMVY$109
How this compares
$10,867 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 712 optometrist providers in Kentucky.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 31 | $207 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Lexington
- Paul KarpeckiLexington$3.6M
- Bilal AhmadLexington$150K
- Christopher KucLexington$52K
- Karen McMillinLexington$10K
- Tania PatelLexington$6K
- Danielle FrankLexington$5K
- Ashley LaneLexington$5K
- Steven SpearLexington$5K
- Howell FindleyLexington$5K
- Lisa WangLexington$4K
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.