Pamela Lowe, OD
Optometrist · Chicago, ILNPI 1851484620
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $273,885 of the $446,604 with a category attached, or 61.3%. Alcon accounts for 87.3% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $123,127 and has fallen 54.7% since, to $55,774 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in IL 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 933 payments — averaging $478.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$390K
- Maculogix, Inc.$54K
- Coopervision Inc.$1K
- Optos, Inc.$374
- Visionix USA, Inc$362
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$159
- plus $457 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$273,88561%
- Speaking & faculty fees$67,96415%
- Travel & lodging$77,53717%
- Food & beverage$27,0336%
- Entertainment$1840%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 858 | $389,882 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 27 | $54,081 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 19 | $1,289 |
| Optos, Inc. | 9 | $374 |
| Visionix USA, Inc | 1 | $362 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $159 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 3 | $119 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $101 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $75 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Novartis | 2 | $39 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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.
- TOTAL30$170,575
- Precision 1$123,811
- DAILIES TOTAL1$116,533
- DAILIES$87,699
- AdaptDx$53,907
- AIR OPTIX$20,400
- Systane$20,284
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$8,955
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$8,311
- Precision7$8,234
- ILUX$4,587
- MiSight Contact Lens$479
- OCT$362
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$200
- ULTRA$105
- VUITY$101
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$100
- NFC-700$100
How this compares
$446,604 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,257 optometrist providers in Illinois.
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.
Other optometrist in Chicago
- Michael ChaglasianChicago$367K
- Jessilin QuintChicago$366K
- Jullian CerasuoloChicago$329K
- Jennifer HarthanChicago$84K
- Neil HodurChicago$67K
- James SementilliChicago$25K
- Lindsay SicksChicago$23K
- Emma LoyfmanChicago$23K
- Michelle ManChicago$20K
- Vincent BrandysChicago$16K
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.