John Bascome
Optometrist · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1184927105
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — gifts (55.3%), food and beverage and speaking fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Visionary Optics LLC at 55.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $13,333, 6.7 times the $1,990 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in FL 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 117 payments — averaging $176.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Visionary Optics LLC$11K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Oculus, Inc.$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Glaukos Corporation$178
- plus $862 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2901%
- Speaking & faculty fees$3,64018%
- Travel & lodging$1,1506%
- Food & beverage$4,05420%
- Gifts$11,44555%
- Entertainment$1081%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Visionary Optics LLC | 1 | $11,445 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 49 | $2,210 |
| Oculus, Inc. | 1 | $2,140 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 18 | $2,097 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 21 | $1,754 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $178 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $145 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $140 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $108 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $59 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $57 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Alcon | 1 | $17 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Novartis | 1 | $13 |
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.
- OCULUS Keratograph 5M$2,140
- Onefit Contact Lens$1,500
- BIOTRUE$1,096
- ULTRA$1,096
- Acuvue$1,029
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$250
- LIPIFLOW SYSTEM ACTIVATOR (DISPOSABLE)$145
- XIIDRA$125
How this compares
$20,687 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
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.
Other optometrist in Ft Lauderdale
- James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
- April JasperWest Palm Beach$553K
- Nora CothranLargo$505K
- Michael SluskyNorth Port$384K
- Katie SpearDefuniak Springs$361K
- Karen HoffmanOrange Park$282K
- Ashley RothMiami Beach$261K
- Jessica SteenDavie$256K
- Mark DunbarMiami$236K
- Robert DavisPembroke Pines$217K
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.