Has Monica Sawitzke received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,816 in general payments to Monica Sawitzke across 167 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 Monica Sawitzke 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 Monica Sawitzke 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.

Monica Sawitzke

Optometrist · Phoenix, AZNPI 1518018589

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,770 of the $6,816 with a category attached, or 70.0%. 14 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 53.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $2,687 and has fallen 72.5% since, to $738 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in AZ 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.

$6,816in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 167 payments — averaging $40.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$4K
Coopervision Inc.$879
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$632
Alcon$545
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$333
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$295
plus $478 from 8 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$2,02530%
Food & beverage$4,77070%
Entertainment$210%

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.	55	$3,654
Coopervision Inc.	31	$879
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	21	$632
Alcon	22	$545
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	10	$333
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$295
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	7	$217
Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$72
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$59
AbbVie	2	$41
Optos, Inc.	2	$36
Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.	1	$25
Thea Pharma Inc.	1	$15
Maculogix, Inc.	1	$14

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

$6,816 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,134 optometrist providers in Arizona.

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Simon ZmyslinskiPhoenix$12K
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Stephanie MastoresPhoenix$11K
Allissun HoppertPhoenix$10K
Keyla GammaranoPhoenix$10K
Randall PaulPhoenix$10K
Amanda MisincoPhoenix$8K
Amy CzyzPhoenix$8K

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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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