Kriti Bhagat, OD
Optometrist · Providence, RINPI 1427464510
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (40.6%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 50.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $124,955, 4.3 times the $29,079 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in RI 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 657 payments — averaging $521.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$174K
- Alcon$140K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$13K
- Glaukos Corporation$9K
- Coopervision Inc.$5K
- Dompe US, Inc.$321
- plus $1K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$129,93038%
- Speaking & faculty fees$139,27541%
- Travel & lodging$58,44517%
- Food & beverage$14,8244%
- Entertainment$2080%
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 Americas Inc. | 315 | $174,279 |
| Alcon | 249 | $139,548 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 38 | $13,113 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 12 | $9,194 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 13 | $4,787 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 8 | $321 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 4 | $315 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $223 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $212 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $208 |
| Valley Contax, Inc. | 1 | $200 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $199 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$98,102
- Precision 1$40,963
- ILUX$33,103
- DAILIES$25,728
- DAILIES TOTAL1$16,467
- TOTAL30$14,335
- MULTI-FOCAL$11,762
- ZENLENS$10,641
- INFUSE MULTIFOCAL$9,398
- KXL System$8,039
- Prokera$7,792
- Onefit Contact Lens$4,456
- BLINK NUTRITEARS$2,000
- AIR OPTIX$891
- CE-marked KXLA system$525
- Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$367
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$276
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$276
- Precision7$149
- XDEMVY$142
How this compares
$342,681 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 226 optometrist providers in Rhode Island.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 15 | $207 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Providence
- Lucia DangeloProvidence$6K
- Carl CorrowProvidence$5K
- John CorrowProvidence$5K
- Scott ColonnaProvidence$4K
- Chad WaggonerProvidence$3K
- Rickie ChinProvidence$2K
- Michael MartinezProvidence$2K
- April MishleyProvidence$2K
- Cassandra OliveiraProvidence$2K
- Brett ZerbinopoulosProvidence$2K
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.