Maria Cardona
Optometrist · Maplewood, NJNPI 1568526234
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 124 payments — averaging $48.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$830
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$475
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$340
- Alcon$337
- plus $1K from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$200%
- Speaking & faculty fees$491%
- Food & beverage$5,87998%
- Gifts$561%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 22 | $1,672 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 63 | $1,064 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 9 | $830 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $475 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $340 |
| Alcon | 2 | $337 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $254 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $200 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $188 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 2 | $95 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $92 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $77 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Alimera Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals 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.
- MIEBO$565
- XIIDRA$440
- XDEMVY$389
- RESTASIS$371
- VUITY$365
- LUMIGAN$360
- TYRVAYA$340
- DAILIES TOTAL1$337
- Acuvue$128
- COMBIGAN$123
- CEQUA$120
- MiSight Contact Lens$119
- VYZULTA$109
- MyDay Contact Lens$101
How this compares
$6,004 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,357 optometrist providers in New Jersey.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 18 | $1,167 |
| Timolol Maleate | 17 | $499 |
| Latanoprost | 41 | $365 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Maplewood
- Kerry GelbWoodbridge$264K
- Rodolfo RodriguezNorth Bergen$244K
- Steven SorkinFairfield$146K
- Paul VaccarellaRockaway$99K
- Ada NohCinnaminson$74K
- Kristen FryTeaneck$66K
- Melanne RosettaIselin$66K
- Frank BuccieroSpringfield$57K
- Debbie EdegranCloster$53K
- Victoria DzurinkoDeptford$47K
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.