Punit Bhakta
Optometrist · Peachtree City, GANPI 1134405046
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (59.8%), consulting fees and entertainment — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. at 35.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $291 and has fallen 57.0% since, to $125 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for optometrist clinicians in GA, where the typical reported total is $813.
Across 22 payments — averaging $31.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$246
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$235
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$89
- Alcon$51
- Optos, Inc.$46
- ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC$18
- plus $13 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$23534%
- Food & beverage$41860%
- Entertainment$467%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 9 | $246 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 1 | $235 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $89 |
| Alcon | 3 | $51 |
| Optos, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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$235
How this compares
$700 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 1,285 optometrist providers in Georgia.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RestasisCyclosporine | 15 | $16,885 |
| CombiganBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 24 | $13,701 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 23 | $10,622 |
| Latanoprost | 104 | $1,449 |
| Timolol Maleate | 42 | $521 |
| Dorzolamide-TimololDorzolamide Hcl/Timolol Maleat | 33 | $446 |
| Prednisolone Acetate | 12 | $325 |
| Neomycin-Polymyxin-DexamethNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Dexametha | 13 | $95 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
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- Scott MoscowRoswell$278K
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- Keyle BrownDawsonville$182K
- Nacondus GambleFort Stewart$175K
- Amber ZaunbrecherAtlanta$99K
- Jeffrey CofieWarner Robins$93K
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.