RxDoctor Payments Data

Naomi Sakoda

Optometrist · Newport News, VANPI 1801918156

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 37 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 10 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $320 and has fallen 85.8% since, to $45 in 2024. That places this record below the midpoint for optometrist clinicians in VA, where the typical reported total is $849.

$809in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 37 payments — averaging $21.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$156
  • Alcon$155
  • Coopervision Inc.$148
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$90
  • Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$78
  • AbbVie$67
  • plus $116 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$809100%

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

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24

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.

How this compares

$809 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,946
Medicare patients
26
Services billed
35

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.

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