Lindsey Kennedy
Optometrist · Wamego, KSNPI 1972057677
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,732 of the $4,670 with a category attached, or 79.9%. It is spread thinly across 19 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,945 and has fallen 75.2% since, to $482 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in KS 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 64 payments — averaging $72.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$1K
- AbbVie$652
- Alcon$604
- Glaukos Corporation$326
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$265
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$251
- plus $1K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$90019%
- Food & beverage$3,73280%
- Gifts$391%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 3 | $1,083 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 9 | $652 |
| Alcon | 11 | $604 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 5 | $326 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $265 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $251 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $230 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 6 | $186 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 3 | $176 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $170 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $132 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $124 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $98 |
| Novartis | 4 | $77 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $62 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $26 |
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.
- VisuMax$783
- RESTASIS$359
- ATLAS 500$300
- CIRRUS 6000 with AngioPlex$300
- CIRRUS HD-OCT$300
- CLARUS$300
- CEQUA$251
- Acuvue$241
- Rhopressa$230
- Rocklatan$230
- iStent inject Trabecular Micro-Bypass Stent System$213
- ACTIVEFOCUS$143
- INVELTYS$136
- EYSUVIS$136
- TearCare SmartLid$132
- TEARCARE(TM) (2.2) SYSTEM KIT$132
- TYRVAYA$125
- EYLEA$124
- Precision 1$106
- Precision7$102
How this compares
$4,670 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 567 optometrist providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prednisolone Acetate | 17 | $475 |
| Latanoprost | 22 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Wamego
- Jeffry GersonOlathe$619K
- Shane KannarrPittsburg$529K
- Jason PingelMission$244K
- Justin WeigelOlathe$220K
- Chad ThompsonBeloit$96K
- Brandon HunterLeawood$68K
- Raymond BrillMission$19K
- Vincent PennipedeOverland Park$16K
- Ryan WineingerShawnee$13K
- Diana CarrigerTopeka$12K
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.