Katrina Nichols, OD
Optometrist · Douglas, AZNPI 1093773285
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $4,500 of the $6,698 with a category attached, or 67.2%. Alcon accounts for 87.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $4,037 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $156 in 2024. Among optometrist clinicians in AZ 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 68 payments — averaging $98.50 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$6K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$673
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$163
- Novartis$33
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,50067%
- Food & beverage$2,19833%
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 | 43 | $5,829 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 21 | $673 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $163 |
| Novartis | 2 | $33 |
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$4,140
- Precision 1$614
- DAILIES TOTAL1$500
- Acuvue$254
- TOTAL30$104
How this compares
$6,698 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th 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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 13 | $13,958 |
| Latanoprost | 38 | $236 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Douglas
- Cheryl SchmittDouglas$9K
- Marc BloomensteinScottsdale$1.4M
- Stephanie WooLake Havasu City$538K
- Jashpal RajasansiGilbert$104K
- Jamie KuhnGlendale$37K
- Tania SobchukLake Havasu City$32K
- Stephen CohenScottsdale$32K
- Andrew ZagelbaumScottsdale$25K
- Linda TrinhPeoria$22K
- Jason BaileyGilbert$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.