Julie Cho
Optometrist · Ellicott City, MDNPI 1558592204
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 33 payments — averaging $48.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lumenis BE Inc$550
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$257
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$211
- Alcon$162
- AbbVie$97
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$82
- plus $258 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,58098%
- Gifts$372%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $550 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 10 | $257 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $211 |
| Alcon | 3 | $162 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $97 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $82 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $79 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Oasis Medical, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
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.
How this compares
$1,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 790 optometrist providers in Maryland.
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 Ellicott City
- Rizwana IqbalEllicott City$34K
- Joshua GordonEllicott City$8K
- Susan LathropFulton$337K
- Timothy EarleyOakland$279K
- Padmini NathanFrederick$199K
- Alan GlazierRockville$87K
- Andrew MorgensternBethesda$62K
- Devin SasserSilver Spring$40K
- Brian WoolfPasadena$19K
- Vickie FangGaithersburg$17K
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.