Kathryn Mueller, OD
Optometrist · Menomonee Falls, WINPI 1174635692
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,684 of the $7,059 with a category attached, or 80.5%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 40.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,065 and has fallen 70.8% since, to $604 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in WI 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 161 payments — averaging $43.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$3K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Alcon$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$285
- Glaukos Corporation$228
- Shire North American Group Inc$125
- plus $222 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,35819%
- Food & beverage$5,68481%
- Gifts$170%
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. | 77 | $2,853 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 30 | $2,150 |
| Alcon | 26 | $1,196 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 14 | $285 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 3 | $228 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 2 | $80 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $42 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $18 |
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$1,759
- ULTRA$1,502
- BIOTRUE$1,053
- TOTAL30$368
- Precision7$237
- XIIDRA$125
- iStent$118
- KXL System$118
- Photrexa$118
How this compares
$7,059 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 867 optometrist providers in Wisconsin.
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 Menomonee Falls
- David NelsonMadison$256K
- Jennifer FrieheMukwonago$234K
- Tessa SokolMadison$105K
- Christopher LopezClintonville$48K
- Jeff BanasMount Pleasant$46K
- Jessica SchiffbauerKenosha$27K
- Jeffrey ClementsSun Prairie$16K
- Douglas HinsonSturtevant$15K
- Marcus NeitzkeWaukesha$14K
- Michelle KwonHartford$12K
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.