Michel Kish
Optometrist · Mechanicsville, VANPI 1336257989
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,093 of the $6,989 with a category attached, or 87.2%. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 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 169 payments — averaging $41.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Alcon$662
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$489
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$352
- plus $2K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$89613%
- Food & beverage$6,09387%
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. | 21 | $1,465 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 32 | $1,076 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 25 | $1,064 |
| Alcon | 13 | $662 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 16 | $489 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 13 | $352 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 11 | $304 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $299 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 7 | $218 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $153 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $149 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $129 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $126 |
| Lumenis, Inc | 1 | $120 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $76 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $52 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Novartis | 2 | $42 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Oasis Medical, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $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.
- Clariti Contact Lens$896
- INFUSE$594
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$340
- TOTAL30$249
- DAILIES TOTAL1$249
- Precision 1$249
- LIPIFLOW SYSTEM ACTIVATOR (DISPOSABLE)$140
- Precision7$131
- Prokera$129
- LUMIGAN$124
- DURYSTA$124
- XEN GLAUCOMA TREATMENT SYSTEM$124
- TEPEZZA$122
- Acuvue$121
- Clareon$119
- VUITY$118
- BIOTRUE$114
- ULTRA$114
How this compares
$6,989 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 11 | $6,998 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 22 | $3,120 |
| Latanoprost | 193 | $1,803 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 40 | $917 |
| Timolol Maleate | 62 | $511 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 12 | $336 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 19 | $232 |
| Ketorolac Tromethamine | 16 | $126 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRestasis | $299 | $6,99811 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
Other optometrist in Mechanicsville
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Walter SchlabachHarrisonburg$31K
- Mark AbrahamFalls Church$30K
- David TangVirginia Beach$29K
- Tiffany LioneAldie$23K
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.