Has Michael Kynn received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,665 in general payments to Michael Kynn across 20 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Kynn did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Kynn come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Kynn

Optometrist · Jacksonville, FLNPI 1952494833

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.8% of the total across 20 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 9 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 25.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $513 and has fallen 77.6% since, to $115 in 2024.

$1,665in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $83.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$423
Maculogix, Inc.$270
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$240
Amgen$200
Dompe US, Inc.$154
Alcon$133
plus $244 from 3 others

$4,467,339in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 51 payments — averaging $87,595 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$4.5M

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,64699%
Gifts$191%

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
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	8	$423
Maculogix, Inc.	1	$270
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	2	$240
Amgen	2	$200
Dompe US, Inc.	2	$154
Alcon	2	$133
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$115
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$110
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG	1	$19

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.

AdaptDx$270
TEPEZZA$117
INFUSE$116
XDEMVY$115
XIIDRA$110

How this compares

$1,665 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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