Nina Katsev
Optometrist · Santa Barbara, CANPI 1972691566
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 92.7% of the total across 197 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 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 10.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,620 and has fallen 58.9% since, to $1,078 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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 197 payments — averaging $63.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$1K
- Glaukos Corporation$1K
- Alcon$971
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$874
- Ivantis, Inc$718
- plus $6K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$9137%
- Food & beverage$11,62093%
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. | 18 | $1,290 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 7 | $1,197 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 17 | $1,044 |
| Alcon | 15 | $971 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 11 | $874 |
| Ivantis, Inc | 10 | $718 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $701 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 8 | $694 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 14 | $520 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $454 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 15 | $444 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 5 | $421 |
| Rxsight Inc | 9 | $401 |
| Novartis | 11 | $349 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 4 | $339 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 5 | $322 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $318 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 4 | $292 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $240 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $208 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $153 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 1 | $133 |
| Eyepoint US, Inc. | 1 | $121 |
| Ocular Therapeutix, Inc. | 1 | $106 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $54 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Omeros Corporation | 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.
- Tecnis 1-piece IOL$913
- Tecnis Multifocal Family of 1-piece IOLS$913
- Tecnis Symfony IOL$913
- XIIDRA$431
- Kahook Dual Blade$381
- Ahmed Glaucoma Valve$381
- Hydrus Microstent$377
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$307
- ENVISTA ENVY$286
- Clearpath$260
- Streamline$260
- Oxervate$252
- CEQUA$230
- PROLENSA$225
- LOTEMAX SM$225
- MIEBO$206
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$153
- NFC-700$153
- Hydrus$148
- TEPEZZA$147
How this compares
$12,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.
Other optometrist in Santa Barbara
- Steve YoelinNewport Beach$4.1M
- Matthew GellerSpring Valley$3.5M
- Melissa EricksonDavis$522K
- Omid KhodaiLake Forest$499K
- Jason TuSan Diego$351K
- Scott SchachterPismo Beach$312K
- Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
- Vin DangBakersfield$284K
- Steven FerrucciSepulveda$272K
- Katie ChuRosemead$271K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.