Kevin Bistline
Optometrist · Plymouth Meeting, PANPI 1538311600
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $211,410 of the $301,633 with a category attached, or 70.1%. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 50.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $111,756 and has fallen 58.0% since, to $46,981 in 2024. Among optometrist clinicians in PA 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 577 payments — averaging $522.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$151K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$149K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$653
- Alcon$405
- Coopervision Inc.$266
- AbbVie$160
- plus $260 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$24,1388%
- Speaking & faculty fees$211,41070%
- Travel & lodging$51,08917%
- Food & beverage$14,9975%
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, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 311 | $150,840 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 214 | $149,050 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 19 | $653 |
| Alcon | 11 | $405 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 14 | $266 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 2 | $160 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $120 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 3 | $96 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $44 |
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.
- INFUSE$154,487
- BIOTRUE$114,799
- ULTRA$104,278
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$103,211
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$29,448
- ZEN LENS$7,159
- SOFLENS$7,159
- BIOTRUE ONEDAY FOR PRESBYOPIA$5,217
- MULTI-FOCAL LENS$4,400
- LENSCRAFTERS$3,958
- Acuvue$116
- VUITY$100
How this compares
$301,633 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,165 optometrist providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 21 | $8,793 |
| Latanoprost | 96 | $675 |
| Tobramycin-DexamethasoneTobramycin/Dexamethasone | 14 | $602 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta | $149,050 | $8,79321 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 2,165 optometrist providers in Pennsylvania.
Other optometrist in Plymouth Meeting
- James DeomHazle Township$793K
- Gregory CaldwellDuncansville$547K
- Leslie O DellNew Freedom$388K
- Thomas KislanStroudsburg$266K
- Erick HendersonPittsburgh$266K
- Ryan YealyLancaster$164K
- Joseph SmayNew Kensington$147K
- Julie McLaughlinAllentown$142K
- Robert RosenthalNewtown$127K
- Michael CymborState College$121K
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.