Judith Schaffer
Optometrist · Ft Lauderdale, FLNPI 1770648453
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $8,070 of the $9,281 with a category attached, or 86.9%. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 25.4% of the total. 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 123 payments — averaging $75.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
- Alcon$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$1000
- Optos, Inc.$653
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$448
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$8649%
- Food & beverage$8,07087%
- Gifts$170%
- Entertainment$3304%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 27 | $2,359 |
| Alcon | 24 | $2,164 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 15 | $1,279 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 22 | $1,000 |
| Optos, Inc. | 10 | $653 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $448 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $207 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $167 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $137 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Amgen | 1 | $104 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $99 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $93 |
| Optovue, Inc. | 1 | $83 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $74 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $40 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $18 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 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.
- INFUSE$1,765
- DAILIES$1,168
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$797
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$670
- AIR OPTIX$596
- NFC-700$398
- Acuvue$374
- MyDay Contact Lens$324
- Precision7$163
- Lucentis$137
- AdaptDx$129
- TOTAL30$128
- BIOTRUE$125
- ULTRA$125
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$125
- EYSUVIS$125
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$125
- ILUX$125
- Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$113
- Oxervate$108
How this compares
$9,281 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
Other optometrist in Ft Lauderdale
- John BascomeFt Lauderdale$21K
- 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
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.