Patrick Vollmer
Optometrist · Columbia, SCNPI 1952784928
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 240 payments — averaging $6754.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$903K
- Alcon Research LLC$299K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$288K
- Biotissue Holdings Inc.$112K
- AbbVie$8K
- Glaukos Corporation$8K
- plus $2K from 9 others
Across 19 payments — averaging $8931.55 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$144K
- Roche TCRC, Inc.$14K
- Bausch Health US, LLC$7K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$5K
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. | 93 | $903,441 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 39 | $299,015 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 42 | $288,168 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 12 | $112,326 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $8,302 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 13 | $7,900 |
| Alcon | 14 | $616 |
| Harrow Eye, LLC | 9 | $465 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 6 | $342 |
| Novartis | 3 | $192 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Amgen | 2 | $94 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $62 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,621,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 653 optometrist providers in South Carolina.
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 Columbia
- Duc TranColumbia$57K
- Wayne CannonColumbia$7K
- Nickolas VastisColumbia$7K
- Bradley PowersColumbia$7K
- Dorothy ParkColumbia$6K
- Philip FlynnColumbia$5K
- John BrinkleyColumbia$5K
- Elliott KellerBoiling Springs$276K
- William SpearmanPickens$104K
- Thomas WeshefskyMyrtle Beach$77K
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.