Mario Palermo
Optometrist · Arlington Heights, ILNPI 1104806348
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,344 of the $1,517 with a category attached, or 88.6%. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $413 and has fallen 73.9% since, to $108 in 2025.
Across 62 payments — averaging $24.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$295
- Coopervision Inc.$266
- Alcon$263
- Notal Vision, Inc.$236
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$132
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$109
- plus $216 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$17311%
- Food & beverage$1,34489%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 16 | $295 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 8 | $266 |
| Alcon | 16 | $263 |
| Notal Vision, Inc. | 2 | $236 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 2 | $132 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $109 |
| Novartis | 3 | $55 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $54 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $20 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- TearCare$112
How this compares
$1,517 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,257 optometrist providers in Illinois.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 13 | $5,994 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 20 | $3,860 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 19 | $2,184 |
| Latanoprost | 123 | $1,300 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 40 | $454 |
| Timolol Maleate | 38 | $168 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Arlington Heights
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- Jeffrey LewisChampaign$394K
- Adeyinka AdewaleGodfrey$391K
- Michael ChaglasianChicago$367K
- Jessilin QuintChicago$366K
- Jullian CerasuoloChicago$329K
- Steven EidenDeerfield$259K
- Peter KehoeGalesburg$167K
- Gulroop HansraDowners Grove$151K
- Treacy AdamoHinsdale$94K
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.