Leah Ruhland, OD
Optometrist · Plymouth, MNNPI 1457840191
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $1,065 of the $1,742 with a category attached, or 61.1%. Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. accounts for 68.8% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,252 and has fallen 84.7% since, to $192 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MN 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.
Across 23 payments — averaging $75.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
- Alcon$204
- Coopervision Inc.$106
- Novartis$105
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$76
- Carl Zeiss Meditec AG$39
- plus $14 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,06561%
- Food & beverage$63837%
- Gifts$392%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 8 | $1,199 |
| Alcon | 5 | $204 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $106 |
| Novartis | 1 | $105 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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.
- Acuvue$1,065
- TRAVATAN Z$105
- TOTAL30$102
How this compares
$1,742 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 826 optometrist providers in Minnesota.
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 | 63 | $866 |
| Timolol Maleate | 13 | $78 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Plymouth
- Anthony TraversePlymouth$8K
- Jacob LangStillwater$264K
- Britt GustafsonEden Prairie$236K
- Gina WesleyMedina$232K
- Nicholas ColatrellaSartell$84K
- Trevor FossoSartell$45K
- Mathew WalkerAlexandria$43K
- Joshua HanenMinneapolis$40K
- Zachary HollandEdina$36K
- Patrick WellikApple Valley$15K
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.