Michael Berenhaus
Optometrist · Bethesda, MDNPI 1407905128
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,020 of the $4,227 with a category attached, or 71.4%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC at 37.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,153 and has fallen 81.3% since, to $402 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 59 payments — averaging $71.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- Alcon$579
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$393
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$314
- AbbVie$258
- Coopervision Inc.$254
- plus $829 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20729%
- Food & beverage$3,02071%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 14 | $1,598 |
| Alcon | 12 | $579 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $393 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $314 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $258 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 8 | $254 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 6 | $245 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $178 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $164 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $120 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $90 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $33 |
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.
- BIOTRUE$1,247
- ULTRA$1,247
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$345
- Precision 1$270
- VUITY$258
- Prokera$140
- XDEMVY$122
- INFUSE$120
- TOTAL30$120
- DAILIES TOTAL1$120
- CEQUA$115
- DAILIES$106
How this compares
$4,227 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 790 optometrist providers in Maryland.
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 Bethesda
- Andrew MorgensternBethesda$62K
- Babak HosseiniBethesda$4K
- Susan LathropFulton$337K
- Timothy EarleyOakland$276K
- Padmini NathanFrederick$199K
- Alan GlazierRockville$87K
- Devin SasserSilver Spring$40K
- Rizwana IqbalEllicott City$34K
- Brian WoolfPasadena$19K
- Vickie FangGaithersburg$17K
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.