Karen Lee
Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1215378294
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (44.9%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 82.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $22,875 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $53 in 2024. Among optometrist clinicians in TX 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 263 payments — averaging $271.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$59K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$4K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$3K
- Coopervision Inc.$3K
- Glaukos Corporation$952
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$442
- plus $1K from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$32,05045%
- Speaking & faculty fees$18,18025%
- Travel & lodging$14,56820%
- Food & beverage$6,2099%
- Gifts$3500%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 189 | $59,169 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $3,712 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $3,144 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 33 | $2,667 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 6 | $952 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 10 | $442 |
| Visionary Optics LLC | 1 | $350 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $276 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $154 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $141 |
| Synergeyes, Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Gilead | 1 | $23 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $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.
- DAILIES$14,751
- AIR OPTIX$7,288
- TOTAL30$6,954
- DAILIES TOTAL1$6,453
- ZEN LENS$5,750
- AIR OPTIX Aqua$2,410
- Non-Product Brand Specific$1,249
- ZENLENS$875
- Precision 1$854
- ILUX$630
- TYRVAYA$254
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass System Model G2-M-IS$165
- iAccess Precision Blade$165
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$136
- Oxervate$125
- Paragon CRT$108
- MyDay Contact Lens$100
How this compares
$71,358 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
Other optometrist in Houston
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$547K
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$222K
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$214K
- Maria WalkerHouston$128K
- Seema NandaHouston$87K
- Danica MarrelliHouston$87K
- Richard BakerHouston$78K
- Nishi MehdirattaHouston$45K
- Ali MostaghimiHouston$37K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.