Paul Bruderer
Optometrist · West Valley City, UTNPI 1316956576
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $6,943 of the $8,239 with a category attached, or 84.3%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. at 26.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,028 and has fallen 58.5% since, to $1,256 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in UT 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 130 payments — averaging $63.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$1K
- Coopervision Inc.$946
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$876
- Alcon$788
- AbbVie$397
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20015%
- Food & beverage$6,94384%
- Gifts$390%
- Entertainment$571%
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. | 27 | $2,143 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 17 | $1,149 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 28 | $946 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 15 | $876 |
| Alcon | 15 | $788 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $397 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $294 |
| Optos, Inc. | 3 | $240 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 2 | $206 |
| Derma Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $155 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $155 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $134 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $125 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $123 |
| Lumenis, Inc | 1 | $103 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $68 |
| Heru, Inc. | 1 | $42 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 2 | $39 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Novartis | 1 | $22 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Acuvue$1,694
- INFUSE$987
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$493
- ULTRA$376
- PANORAMIC OPHTHALMOSCOPE$335
- MyDay Contact Lens$326
- Syfovre$294
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$250
- OCT OPHTHALMOSCOPE$168
- NFC-700$168
- BIOFIX$155
- BIODRESTORE$155
- MEDIHONEY$155
- BIODOPTIX$155
- BIODFACTOR$155
- DAILIES TOTAL1$143
- Photrexa Viscous and Photrexa$134
- RESTASIS$129
- Precision 1$126
- Precision7$126
How this compares
$8,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 423 optometrist providers in Utah.
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 West Valley City
- Christopher TroxelWest Valley City$3K
- Stephen ReinhartHill Afb$134K
- Robert WooldridgeMurray$69K
- Ian WhippleFarr West$60K
- Rhett VeaterWest Jordan$52K
- Jonathan KingSouth Ogden$42K
- Collin GrayLehi$30K
- Sean CushmanSalt Lake City$25K
- Brian RowleyPayson$15K
- Michael HillMurray$11K
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.