Melissa Levine
Optometrist · New York, NYNPI 1164094504
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (36.4%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 63.6% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,581, 4.2 times the $375 reported in 2021.
Across 26 payments — averaging $113.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Coopervision Inc.$446
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$366
- Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc.$75
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$66
- Harrow Eye, LLC$57
- plus $68 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$72525%
- Speaking & faculty fees$36312%
- Travel & lodging$1,07836%
- Food & beverage$79427%
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 | 9 | $1,881 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 5 | $446 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $366 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 2 | $57 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $28 |
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.
- Clariti Contact Lens$363
- Acuvue$363
- AIR OPTIX$363
- Precision 1$117
How this compares
$2,959 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.
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 New York
- Susan ResnickNew York$463K
- Denise WhittamNew York$343K
- Jennifer TsaiNew York$275K
- Sophia VisanjiNew York$233K
- Jason ComptonNew York$181K
- Richard MadonnaNew York$75K
- George ZikosNew York$72K
- Craig TischNew York$59K
- Arthur JungNew York$50K
- Milly MuiNew York$46K
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.