Has Rich Yang received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $6,573 in general payments to Rich Yang across 132 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Rich Yang did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Rich Yang come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Rich Yang

Optometrist · Pasadena, CANPI 1982054003

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $5,542 of the $6,573 with a category attached, or 84.3%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Coopervision Inc. at 24.7% of the total. Among optometrist clinicians in CA 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.

$6,573in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 132 payments — averaging $49.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Coopervision Inc.$2K
Alcon$1K
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$1K
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$956
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.$331
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$312
plus $778 from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$99315%
Food & beverage$5,54284%
Gifts$391%

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.	35	$1,621
Alcon	9	$1,499
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.	26	$1,076
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.	21	$956
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	6	$331
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	11	$312
Glaukos Corporation	1	$163
Dompe US, Inc.	9	$159
Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$122
Sight Sciences, Inc.	2	$94
AbbVie	3	$59
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$51
Thea Pharma Inc.	2	$48
Biotissue Holdings Inc.	1	$43
Carl Zeiss Meditec AG	2	$39

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.

How this compares

$6,573 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,778 optometrist providers in California.

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Alicia LauSan Diego$300K
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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