Kathy Vu
Optometrist · Glendale, AZNPI 1073778601
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 94.4% of the total across 51 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.1% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 51 payments — averaging $65.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$734
- Coopervision Inc.$656
- Alcon$565
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$417
- Optos, Inc.$390
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$173
- plus $390 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,14194%
- Gifts$341%
- Entertainment$1505%
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. | 15 | $734 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $656 |
| Alcon | 7 | $565 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $417 |
| Optos, Inc. | 4 | $390 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $173 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $125 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $118 |
| Synergeyes, Inc. | 2 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $17 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 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.
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$752
- INFUSE$514
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$513
- NFC-700$376
- INFUSE MULTIFOCAL$148
- Precision 1$134
- Precision7$130
- VEVYE$125
- BTOD$120
- EYSUVIS$118
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$117
- TRYPTYR$116
- MyDay Contact Lens$110
- BIOTRUE$109
- ULTRA$109
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$109
- TOTAL30$106
- MIEBO$104
- XIIDRA$104
How this compares
$3,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,134 optometrist providers in Arizona.
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 Glendale
- Jamie KuhnGlendale$37K
- Diana Vega HernandezGlendale$8K
- Grace LiaoGlendale$7K
- Marc BloomensteinScottsdale$1.4M
- Stephanie WooLake Havasu City$538K
- Jashpal RajasansiGilbert$104K
- Tania SobchukLake Havasu City$32K
- Stephen CohenScottsdale$32K
- Andrew ZagelbaumScottsdale$25K
- Linda TrinhPeoria$22K
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.