Nicholas Feipel
Optometrist · Westfield, INNPI 1053758334
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 97.2% of the total across 103 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 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $832 and has fallen 58.8% since, to $343 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in IN with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 103 payments — averaging $33.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$753
- Alcon$527
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$507
- Coopervision Inc.$327
- AbbVie$248
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$229
- plus $891 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,38497%
- Education$983%
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. | 18 | $753 |
| Alcon | 20 | $527 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $507 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 8 | $327 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $248 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 6 | $229 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $192 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 7 | $154 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $152 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $134 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $90 |
| Novartis | 3 | $67 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $25 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Amgen | 1 | $16 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$3,482 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,318 optometrist providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Timolol Maleate | 21 | $253 |
| Latanoprost | 34 | $169 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Westfield
- Natalie Corey TangenWestfield$30K
- Damon DierkerIndianapolis$707K
- Jason JedlickaBloomington$456K
- Kari RiinaFishers$308K
- Rhonda RobinsonIndianapolis$205K
- John CzajaMerrillville$189K
- Peter KollbaumBloomington$60K
- Ryan GustusBluffton$48K
- Steve VargoHighland$48K
- Helen TzanetakosMunster$47K
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.