Michelle Malawer
Optometrist · New York, NYNPI 1013141258
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $10,616 of the $11,877 with a category attached, or 89.4%. It is spread thinly across 16 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,024, more than ten times the $396 reported in 2019. Among optometrist clinicians in NY 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 444 payments — averaging $26.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$1K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Alcon$716
- plus $3K from 10 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,26111%
- Food & beverage$10,61689%
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 Americas Inc. | 80 | $2,016 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 97 | $1,955 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 13 | $1,504 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 63 | $1,426 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 47 | $1,325 |
| Alcon | 28 | $716 |
| Novartis | 26 | $644 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 21 | $607 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 20 | $472 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 17 | $357 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 10 | $274 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $231 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 6 | $164 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $144 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
How this compares
$11,877 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,743 optometrist providers in New York.
Other optometrist in New York
- Susan ResnickNew York$463K
- Denise WhittamNew York$343K
- Jennifer TsaiNew York$275K
- Sophia VisanjiNew York$233K
- Jason ComptonNew York$181K
- Richard MadonnaNew York$75K
- George ZikosNew York$72K
- Craig TischNew York$59K
- Arthur JungNew York$50K
- Milly MuiNew York$46K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.