Robert Buck, OD
Optometrist · Waterbury, CTNPI 1821002346
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 11 payments — averaging $45.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$201
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$91
- Coopervision Inc.$71
- Rxsight Inc$45
- Amgen$24
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$22
- plus $42 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$497100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 4 | $201 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $91 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 1 | $71 |
| Rxsight Inc | 1 | $45 |
| Amgen | 1 | $24 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Alcon | 1 | $22 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
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$146
How this compares
$497 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 574 optometrist providers in Connecticut.
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 | 22 | $26,207 |
| LumiganBimatoprost | 18 | $11,384 |
| RhopressaNetarsudil Mesylate | 14 | $5,194 |
| Travoprost | 27 | $2,053 |
| Latanoprost | 92 | $914 |
| Timolol Maleate | 25 | $96 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Waterbury
- Jeremy PrudhommeWaterbury$7K
- John PulaskiWaterbury$7K
- Fabian VillacisWaterbury$6K
- Joseph ThimonsFairfield$343K
- Inna LazarOld Greenwich$147K
- Jennifer StewartNew Canaan$91K
- Maria PribisStamford$78K
- Michael CooperWest Hartford$47K
- Richard NowakEast Windsor$36K
- Joseph PavanoNew Britain$22K
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.