Lilia Alvarez
Optometrist · El Paso, TXNPI 1568564888
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.0%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. It is spread thinly across 24 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.6%. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,597 and has fallen 64.6% since, to $920 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in TX 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 145 payments — averaging $64.71 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$2K
- Regeneron$2K
- Alcon$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$902
- Coopervision Inc.$798
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$387
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$8509%
- Travel & lodging$2,96132%
- Food & beverage$5,53559%
- Gifts$370%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 21 | $2,028 |
| Regeneron | 8 | $1,636 |
| Alcon | 20 | $1,448 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 23 | $902 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 12 | $798 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 11 | $387 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $341 |
| Novartis | 13 | $271 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $254 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $206 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 6 | $162 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $113 |
| Synergeyes, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $79 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $72 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $72 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $53 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $37 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 3 | $29 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- BIOTRUE$1,501
- ULTRA$1,501
- EYLEA$1,381
- AIR OPTIX$899
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$899
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$899
- XIIDRA$470
- SynergEyes contact lens$451
- EYLEA HD$260
- CEQUA$250
- MIEBO$226
- Precision7$130
- INFUSE$125
- TYRVAYA$125
- Acuvue$124
- Prokera$124
- AmnioGraft$124
- Clareon$122
- Oxervate$119
- RESTASIS$119
How this compares
$9,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
Other optometrist in El Paso
- Derek CunninghamAustin$940K
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$547K
- Luis RojasMcKinney$309K
- Emile FadelAustin$225K
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$222K
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$214K
- Jill AutryBellaire$171K
- Stacie VirdenWaco$164K
- Richard PotvinBurleson$153K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.