Paul Southby
Optometrist · Port Richey, FLNPI 1376502765
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $3,852 of the $4,946 with a category attached, or 77.9%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 49.7% of the total.
Across 101 payments — averaging $48.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$2K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$980
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$527
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$502
- Coopervision Inc.$289
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$135
- plus $55 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,06622%
- Food & beverage$3,85278%
- Entertainment$281%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Alcon | 35 | $2,458 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 27 | $980 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $527 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 9 | $502 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 10 | $289 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 10 | $135 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Visioneering Technologies, Inc. | 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.
- AIR OPTIX$672
- DAILIES$594
- Acuvue$409
- INFUSE$363
- ULTRA$249
- BIOTRUE$125
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$125
- Precision7$122
How this compares
$4,946 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
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 Port Richey
- James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
- April JasperWest Palm Beach$553K
- Nora CothranLargo$505K
- Michael SluskyNorth Port$384K
- Katie SpearDefuniak Springs$361K
- Karen HoffmanOrange Park$282K
- Ashley RothMiami Beach$261K
- Jessica SteenDavie$256K
- Mark DunbarMiami$236K
- Robert DavisPembroke Pines$217K
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.