Paul Salvatore
Optometrist · Mt Pleasant, SCNPI 1124113162
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,053 of the $5,805 with a category attached, or 87.0%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 45.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,581 and has fallen 52.3% since, to $753 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in SC 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 93 payments — averaging $62.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Coopervision Inc.$3K
- Alcon$2K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$150
- Dompe US, Inc.$102
- AbbVie$85
- plus $276 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$75213%
- Food & beverage$5,05387%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coopervision Inc. | 34 | $2,623 |
| Alcon | 28 | $1,507 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 19 | $1,063 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 3 | $150 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $102 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $85 |
| Avedro Inc. | 1 | $77 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $50 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $45 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
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.
- CVI Contact Lens$752
- TOTAL30$494
- ULTRA$341
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$325
- MyDay Contact Lens$319
- Clariti Contact Lens$165
- DAILIES$146
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$125
- Precision 1$121
- Precision7$121
- DAILIES TOTAL1$121
- Oxervate$102
- Biofinity Contact Lens$100
How this compares
$5,805 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th 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 Mt Pleasant
- Furman SmithMt Pleasant$21K
- Elizabeth BraunMt Pleasant$8K
- Thomas WeshefskyMyrtle Beach$77K
- Richard BedellCharleston$55K
- Patrick VollmerColumbia$49K
- William ColemanEasley$22K
- Jennifer ZolmanCharleston$21K
- Steven AndreasenGreenville$19K
- Bridget WhaleyGreenville$18K
- Scott OliverRock Hill$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.