John Adams
Optometrist · Owensboro, KYNPI 1730191602
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (48.2%), travel and lodging and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 64.8% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,455, more than ten times the $203 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in KY with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 74 payments — averaging $60.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$3K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$288
- Alcon$266
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$242
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$181
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$154
- plus $443 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$60013%
- Travel & lodging$1,71438%
- Food & beverage$2,15248%
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. | 14 | $2,893 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 13 | $288 |
| Alcon | 11 | $266 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 9 | $242 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $181 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $154 |
| Novartis | 7 | $129 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $117 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $90 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $68 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 1 | $39 |
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.
- MyDay Contact Lens$1,816
- Non-Product Brand Specific$500
- CEQUA$121
- Clariti Contact Lens$100
How this compares
$4,466 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Fluorometholone | 14 | $835 |
| Latanoprost | 43 | $367 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 11 | $285 |
| ErythromycinErythromycin Base | 18 | $224 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 12 | $165 |
| Dorzolamide Hcl | 15 | $144 |
| Timolol Maleate | 15 | $128 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 20 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Owensboro
- Paul KarpeckiLexington$3.6M
- Bilal AhmadLexington$150K
- Clay MattsonNicholasville$93K
- Ben LeonardCalvert City$75K
- Lee PeplinskiLouisville$74K
- Austin LifferthLouisville$72K
- Christopher KucLexington$52K
- Kristine Kerestan GarbigWilder$51K
- Renee ReederPikeville$27K
- Karoline MunsonFrankfort$26K
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.