RxDoctor Payments Data

Kayla Karpuk

Optometrist · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1033639851

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,615 of the $5,915 with a category attached, or 78.0%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 26.3% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in SD 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.

$5,915in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 139 payments — averaging $42.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
  • Alcon$821
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$557
  • Glaukos Corporation$384
  • Dompe US, Inc.$379
  • AbbVie$370
  • plus $2K from 18 others
$48,243in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $12,061 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$48K
  • Rxsight Inc$113

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,14019%
  • Travel & lodging$290%
  • Food & beverage$4,61578%
  • Gifts$1312%

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

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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.

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

$5,915 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 206 optometrist providers in South Dakota.

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Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Prednisolone Acetate15$677

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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