Matthew Kauffman
Optometrist · Houston, TXNPI 1548522105
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 80 payments — averaging $341.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$17K
- Rxsight Inc$4K
- Visionary Optics LLC$3K
- Alcon$791
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$503
- Glaukos Corporation$479
- plus $977 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,77561%
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,77517%
- Travel & lodging$4712%
- Food & beverage$2,4459%
- Gifts$2,88811%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 24 | $17,340 |
| Rxsight Inc | 4 | $4,375 |
| Visionary Optics LLC | 4 | $2,888 |
| Alcon | 17 | $791 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $503 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 4 | $479 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 6 | $283 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $271 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 4 | $255 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $85 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Alafair Biosciences, 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.
- MiSight Contact Lens$16,821
- RXSIGHT CONTACT LENS$4,375
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR CARTRIDGE$4,375
- RXSIGHT INJECTOR HANDPIECE$4,375
- RXSIGHT LIGHT DELIVERY DEVICE (LDD)$4,375
- LIGHT ADJUSTABLE LENS (LAL)$4,375
- Wavelight Plus$266
- Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$195
- KXL System$160
- Photrexa$160
- ALLODERM$147
- ARGOS$125
- LUMIGAN$125
- Oxervate$121
How this compares
$27,353 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,315 optometrist providers in Texas.
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.
Other optometrist in Houston
- Tiffany HuynhHouston$3.2M
- Bridgitte LeeHouston$3M
- Phillip BrunsonHouston$766K
- Claudio LagunasHouston$644K
- Ashley Wallace-TuckerHouston$568K
- Kathryn RichdaleHouston$288K
- Nancy StephensHouston$241K
- Jelita Green-DathorneHouston$232K
- Eric RitcheyHouston$151K
- Maria WalkerHouston$128K
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.