Marcella Pipitone
Optometrist · Kent, OHNPI 1275910259
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 218 payments — averaging $47.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$5K
- AbbVie$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$818
- Alcon$675
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$279
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$233
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,74446%
- Travel & lodging$7327%
- Food & beverage$4,71946%
- Education$581%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 18 | $5,217 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 61 | $1,224 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $818 |
| Alcon | 29 | $675 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 15 | $279 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $233 |
| Novartis | 10 | $212 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 3 | $200 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 10 | $197 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $159 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $136 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $123 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 8 | $123 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 5 | $117 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 4 | $100 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 4 | $45 |
| Omeros Corporation | 3 | $45 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $31 |
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.
- Rhopressa$4,974
- Rocklatan$4,974
- Non-Product Brand Specific$671
- iStent inject W$150
- LUMIGAN$131
- Acuvue$119
How this compares
$10,253 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LumiganBimatoprost | 253 | $155,438 |
| RestasisCyclosporine | 33 | $47,810 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 58 | $33,171 |
| RocklatanNetarsudil Mesylat/Latanoprost | 37 | $25,779 |
| VyzultaLatanoprostene Bunod | 49 | $19,190 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 314 | $17,920 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 56 | $17,391 |
| Latanoprost | 908 | $11,725 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 480 | $9,061 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 37 | $8,469 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 38 | $8,399 |
| Travoprost | 23 | $7,813 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 16 | $7,047 |
| Bimatoprost | 41 | $5,915 |
| Brinzolamide | 26 | $5,349 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLumigan, Restasis, Combigan, Alphagan P | $1,224 | $227,686358 claims |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Rhopressa, Rocklatan | $5,217 | $58,95095 claims |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.Vyzulta | $279 | $19,19049 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $675 | $8,46937 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,995 optometrist providers in Ohio.
Other optometrist in Kent
- Katie GreinerKent$65K
- Elizabeth MuckleyKent$18K
- Katherine BickleGranville$3M
- Jennifer FogtColumbus$1.9M
- Jason MillerPowell$1.4M
- Mile BrujicBowling Green$1.3M
- William LayWesterville$891K
- Gregory DenaeyerColumbus$846K
- Thomas ChesterCleveland$786K
- Loretta Szczotka-FlynnCleveland$388K
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.