Has Kate McClure received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $18,382 in general payments to Kate McClure across 176 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Kate McClure did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Kate McClure come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Kate McClure

Optometrist · Columbus, OHNPI 1841648672

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (35.7%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 31.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $5,093 and has fallen 97.0% since, to $154 in 2024. Among optometrist clinicians in OH 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.

$18,382in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 176 payments — averaging $104.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Alcon$6K
Coopervision Inc.$5K
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$5K
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$528
Synergeyes, Inc.$431
Biotissue Holdings Inc.$349
plus $2K from 10 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$3,91621%
Speaking & faculty fees$5,92532%
Travel & lodging$1,6829%
Food & beverage$6,55936%
Gifts$3002%

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	52	$5,710
Coopervision Inc.	33	$4,944
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	51	$4,786
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	8	$528
Synergeyes, Inc.	3	$431
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	4	$349
Lombart Brothers, Inc.	9	$313
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	3	$270
Valley Contax, Inc.	2	$260
The Walman Optical Company	1	$240
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	2	$144
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$128
AbbVie	1	$125
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$108
Novartis	2	$33
Alcon Research LLC	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.

How this compares

$18,382 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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