RxDoctor Payments Data

Kevin Duong

Optometrist · Baton Rouge, LANPI 1215369236

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,717 of the $6,539 with a category attached, or 72.1%. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 33.6% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$6,539in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 71 payments — averaging $92.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
  • Coopervision Inc.$1K
  • Alcon$523
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$424
  • Novartis$206
  • AbbVie$201
  • plus $2K from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$95415%
  • Travel & lodging$85013%
  • Food & beverage$4,71772%
  • Gifts$170%

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

$6,539 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 500 optometrist providers in Louisiana.

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