Matthew Hughes
Optometrist · Jackson, TNNPI 1740285527
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $37.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- AbbVie$731
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$504
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$420
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$244
- Rxsight Inc$216
- plus $1K from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,92599%
- Gifts$190%
- Entertainment$311%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 30 | $1,516 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 26 | $731 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 11 | $504 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 8 | $420 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $244 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $216 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $186 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 1 | $161 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $113 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $102 |
| Novartis | 5 | $93 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 5 | $91 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 3 | $88 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 3 | $87 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 1 | $64 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $32 |
| Nova Eye, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$259
- LenSx$220
- CHARTIS CATHETER$161
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$161
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$161
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$161
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix UV IOL$146
- NGENUITY$135
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$134
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$134
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$134
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$134
- LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$134
- DURYSTA$133
- Oxervate$125
- Precision 1$124
- AcrySof IQ PanOptix$121
- LUMIGAN$115
How this compares
$4,975 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,122 optometrist providers in Tennessee.
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 | 136 | $60,046 |
| Alphagan PBrimonidine Tartrate | 36 | $9,268 |
| Travoprost | 64 | $7,484 |
| Latanoprost | 477 | $6,120 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 115 | $5,700 |
| SimbrinzaBrinzolamide/Brimonidine Tart | 22 | $5,181 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 149 | $4,905 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 11 | $3,905 |
| Flurbiprofen Sodium | 113 | $3,177 |
| Timolol Maleate | 183 | $1,511 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 106 | $1,375 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 12 | $1,209 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 45 | $867 |
| Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate | 11 | $552 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 12 | $420 |
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, Alphagan P, Combigan | $731 | $73,220183 claims |
| AlconSimbrinza | $1,516 | $5,18122 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 90th percentile of 1,122 optometrist providers in Tennessee.
Other optometrist in Jackson
- David EvansMemphis$7.8M
- Bradley HinesMemphis$3M
- Christopher LievensMemphis$2.9M
- Peter van HovenBrentwood$402K
- Whitney HauserMemphis$330K
- Richard DurocherNashville$280K
- Torrey CarlsonKingsport$192K
- Frances BynumMartin$162K
- Melvin FriedmanMemphis$108K
- Kurt SteeleNewport$90K
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.