Michael Kling, OD
Optometrist · San Diego, CANPI 1235214479
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,005 of the $5,782 with a category attached, or 69.3%. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 41.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,021 and has fallen 66.1% since, to $685 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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 74 payments — averaging $78.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$691
- Maculogix, Inc.$407
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$340
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$320
- Lumenis BE Inc$294
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,50026%
- Food & beverage$4,00569%
- Entertainment$2765%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 19 | $2,376 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $691 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 3 | $407 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $340 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $320 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 2 | $294 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $276 |
| Alcon | 7 | $263 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $254 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 4 | $175 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $104 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $67 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $25 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Optovue, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- INFUSE$612
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$452
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$452
- AdaptDx$407
- optilight$294
- NFC-700$226
- ULTRA$222
- DAILIES$144
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$140
- MyDay Contact Lens$127
- DEXTENZA$125
- Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$113
- BIOTRUE$104
- OPD-III$104
- MiSight Contact Lens$102
- TearCare$100
How this compares
$5,782 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 22 | $186 |
| Timolol Maleate | 17 | $92 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in San Diego
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Melody TavakoliSan Diego$267K
- Brian ChouSan Diego$243K
- David GeffenSan Diego$144K
- Elliott ShapiroSan Diego$135K
- Keith WanSan Diego$87K
- Jennifer ChinnSan Diego$67K
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
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.