Melissa Ogden
Optometrist · Arlington, VANPI 1821657016
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $7,131 of the $10,389 with a category attached, or 68.6%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 42.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,177 and has fallen 63.0% since, to $1,175 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 147 payments — averaging $70.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$4K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$473
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$415
- Coopervision Inc.$306
- plus $2K from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$3,02129%
- Food & beverage$7,13169%
- Education$70%
- Gifts$561%
- Entertainment$1732%
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 | 45 | $4,371 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 29 | $1,993 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 22 | $1,227 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 16 | $473 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $415 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 6 | $306 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $294 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $240 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $214 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $173 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $150 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $112 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $78 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| Novartis | 2 | $33 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $31 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- Acuvue$1,478
- AIR OPTIX$801
- INFUSE$747
- DAILIES$534
- MIEBO$465
- XIIDRA$465
- Precision 1$380
- TOTAL30$379
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$347
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$347
- DAILIES TOTAL1$266
- XDEMVY$246
- CEQUA$240
- NFC-700$173
- Precision7$159
- SPECTACLE LENSES$130
- Contact Lens$130
- Oxervate$122
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$121
- Clariti Contact Lens$115
How this compares
$10,389 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Cyclosporine | 13 | $4,808 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Arlington
- Sara VarghaiArlington$7K
- Roshni PatelArlington$7K
- Ester KohenArlington$6K
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Walter SchlabachHarrisonburg$31K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.