Richard Arneson, OD
Optometrist · Hastings, NENPI 1710942842
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Alcon accounts for 76.7% of it on its own, with 8 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,307 and has fallen 96.1% since, to $51 in 2025.
Across 33 payments — averaging $58.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$1K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$115
- Coopervision Inc.$88
- Glaukos Corporation$70
- Optos, Inc.$54
- AbbVie$40
- plus $79 from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,02854%
- Food & beverage$89146%
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 | 18 | $1,472 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 5 | $115 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 4 | $88 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 1 | $70 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $40 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $34 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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
$1,919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 383 optometrist providers in Nebraska.
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 Hastings
- Eric ArnesonHastings$3K
- Christopher WolfeOmaha$154K
- Brian BrightmanLincoln$16K
- Cheryl ChapmanGretna$13K
- Jeffrey KleinNorfolk$12K
- Mark ToelleOmaha$10K
- John GoertzOmaha$8K
- Andrea CardaPlattsmouth$7K
- Jordan ArensOmaha$7K
- Mandy JohnsonKearney$6K
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.