RxDoctor Payments Data

Kelly Faulkner

Optometry · Norfolk, VANPI 1619737509

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 60 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 9 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among optometry clinicians in VA 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.

$3,055in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 60 payments — averaging $50.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$635
  • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$558
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$479
  • Alcon$450
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$308
  • Biotissue Holdings Inc.$301
  • plus $323 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,055100%

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

24
25

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

$3,055 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 26 optometry providers in Virginia.

See all optometry providers in Virginia

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$6,217
Medicare patients
44
Services billed
81

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Prednisolone Acetate16$670
Brimonidine Tartrate11$130

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other optometry in Norfolk

See the full list for Virginia

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →