Leah Bruder
Optometrist · Sterling Heights, MINPI 1285042994
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Baxter Healthcare at 44.3% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,308 and has fallen 77.6% since, to $294 in 2025.
Across 61 payments — averaging $36.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Baxter Healthcare$988
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$377
- Coopervision Inc.$170
- Alcon$141
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$106
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$103
- plus $344 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,24156%
- Other$98844%
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $988 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 15 | $377 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $170 |
| Alcon | 8 | $141 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $106 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $103 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $81 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $63 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $53 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Novartis | 2 | $35 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $15 |
How this compares
$2,229 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,523 optometrist providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 19 | $829 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Sterling Heights
- Jamie KuzniarBloomfield$473K
- Monica JohnsonbaughGrosse Pointe$393K
- Nicholas BrunsFlint$238K
- Jay CrankGrand Rapids$209K
- Jeffrey VaranelliWarren$204K
- Thomas RothAnn Arbor$98K
- Frances Poma NowinskiBloomfield Twp$91K
- Michael LipsonWalled Lake$77K
- Stephanie RamdassBig Rapids$59K
- Robert FarrellMount Clemens$55K
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.