Robert Allen
Optometrist · Ashburn, VANPI 1467424275
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (52.9%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Alcon at 48.2% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,822 and has fallen 91.3% since, to $505 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in VA 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.
Across 120 payments — averaging $120.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$7K
- Coopervision Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$2K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$1K
- Sight Sciences, Inc.$544
- Maculogix, Inc.$307
- plus $1K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,80012%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5,00035%
- Food & beverage$7,62853%
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 | 40 | $6,954 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 9 | $2,054 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 19 | $1,923 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 12 | $1,148 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 9 | $544 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 5 | $307 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec USA, Inc. | 4 | $306 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 3 | $293 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 3 | $237 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $177 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 4 | $173 |
| Glaukos Corporation | 2 | $132 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $37 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Novartis | 1 | $20 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
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.
- DAILIES$5,508
- INFUSE$2,120
- MyDay Contact Lens$1,800
- ULTRA$729
- TOTAL30$445
- Precision 1$258
- CEQUA$223
- DAILIES TOTAL1$149
- ACTIVEFOCUS$127
- BIOTRUE$125
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$125
- OMNI(R) SURGICAL SYSTEM (US)$122
- TEARCARE SYSTEM$114
- KXL System$104
- Photrexa$104
How this compares
$14,428 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,230 optometrist providers in Virginia.
Other optometrist in Ashburn
- Walter WhitleyNorfolk$546K
- Jacqueline TheisRichmond$80K
- Joseph AllenRichmond$75K
- Keith SmithsonReston$74K
- Michael SwattsChesapeake$59K
- Kurt DevitoVirginia Beach$54K
- Walter SchlabachHarrisonburg$31K
- Mark AbrahamFalls Church$30K
- David TangVirginia Beach$29K
- Tiffany LioneAldie$23K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.