Joseph Vincent
Optometrist · Great Falls, MTNPI 1265747281
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by other: $2,352 of the $3,227 with a category attached, or 72.9%. Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. accounts for 72.9% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,639 and has fallen 98.0% since, to $53 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MT 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 35 payments — averaging $92.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc.$2K
- Alcon$622
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$69
- Optos, Inc.$39
- Maculogix, Inc.$31
- AbbVie$25
- plus $89 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$85426%
- Entertainment$211%
- Other$2,35273%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $2,352 |
| Alcon | 19 | $622 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 3 | $31 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $20 |
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.
- TOTAL30$145
How this compares
$3,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 184 optometrist providers in Montana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 13 | $2,748 |
| Latanoprost | 101 | $1,195 |
| Fluorometholone | 11 | $744 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 22 | $715 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 48 | $606 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 13 | $596 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 14 | $408 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 13 | $391 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AlconSimbrinza | $622 | $2,74813 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 95th percentile of 184 optometrist providers in Montana.
Other optometrist in Great Falls
- Justine RedlinGreat Falls$3K
- Matthew DooperGreat Falls$2K
- David BauerBillings$4K
- Marisa HessLivingston$4K
- Dirk BeyerHamilton$4K
- Christopher QuallsHamilton$2K
- Travis WhittBozeman$2K
- Mariah MitmanHamilton$2K
- Jennipher HarperBozeman$2K
- Zachary OswaldDillon$2K
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.