Michelle le
Optometrist · Alexandria, VANPI 1902356157
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,082 of the $9,136 with a category attached, or 66.6%. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 32.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,175 and has fallen 56.7% since, to $1,375 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 164 payments — averaging $55.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$3K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Alcon$1K
- AbbVie$719
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$494
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$403
- plus $1K from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$2,99833%
- Food & beverage$6,08267%
- Gifts$561%
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. | 36 | $2,932 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 23 | $1,781 |
| Alcon | 18 | $1,450 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 16 | $719 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 22 | $494 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 14 | $403 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $272 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 8 | $243 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $189 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $179 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $163 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Novartis | 3 | $62 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Oasis Medical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $12 |
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$2,195
- MiSight Contact Lens$1,213
- DAILIES$793
- AIR OPTIX$481
- LUMIGAN$242
- VUITY$219
- Precision7$122
- XDEMVY$121
- EYSUVIS$119
- MIEBO$118
- XIIDRA$118
- Oxervate$115
- Tecnis Simplicity$100
How this compares
$9,136 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Latanoprost | 11 | $76 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Alexandria
- Nancy DraskovicAlexandria$8K
- 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
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.