Kelsi Sawatzky, OD
Optometrist · West Des Moines, IANPI 1245768076
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (46.6%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Coopervision Inc. accounts for 82.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $11,500 and has fallen 78.3% since, to $2,500 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in IA 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 155 payments — averaging $165.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$21K
- Alcon$3K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$84
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$75
- AbbVie$44
- plus $44 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,89011%
- Speaking & faculty fees$11,93547%
- Travel & lodging$7,07428%
- Food & beverage$3,69514%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 103 | $21,142 |
| Alcon | 32 | $2,770 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 10 | $1,435 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $84 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $75 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $44 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
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.
- MyDay Contact Lens$13,153
- Clariti Contact Lens$2,536
- AIR OPTIX$1,538
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$1,538
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$1,538
- BIOTRUE$1,049
- ULTRA$1,049
- Precision 1$362
- MiSight Contact Lens$130
- DAILIES TOTAL1$123
- TOTAL30$119
How this compares
$25,594 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 559 optometrist providers in Iowa.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| XiidraLifitegrast | 11 | $15,827 |
| Latanoprost | 58 | $206 |
| Timolol Maleate | 11 | $50 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in West Des Moines
- Lexie FranzeenWest Des Moines$7K
- Jenessa LockWest Des Moines$5K
- Kelley BaumhoverWest Des Moines$4K
- Michael LockWest Des Moines$4K
- Barbara ScheetzWest Des Moines$3K
- Sara ButterworthCoralville$191K
- Ethan HuismanWaukee$111K
- Heidi BellClive$19K
- Jennifer DenhartogClive$16K
- Wendianne WilsonUrbandale$14K
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.