Robert Coppola
Optometrist · Fort Lauderdale, FLNPI 1780672295
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,974 of the $3,645 with a category attached, or 81.6%. It is spread thinly across 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,330 and has fallen 66.5% since, to $446 in 2025.
Across 85 payments — averaging $42.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bristol Myers Squibb$643
- Alcon$579
- Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$278
- Biogen$255
- ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$239
- Coopervision Inc.$202
- plus $1K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$60016%
- Food & beverage$2,97482%
- Gifts$371%
- Entertainment$351%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $643 |
| Alcon | 9 | $579 |
| Aerie Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 10 | $278 |
| Biogen | 8 | $255 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $239 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 4 | $202 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 3 | $192 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $150 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $139 |
| Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $139 |
| Regeneron | 1 | $111 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 1 | $110 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 1 | $94 |
| Banner Life Sciences, LLC | 5 | $91 |
| NEW World Medical,inc. | 1 | $84 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $47 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $35 |
| Eyevance Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Aucta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $24 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| Thea Pharma Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Topcon Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec AG | 1 | $19 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $9 |
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.
- TOTAL30$250
- AcrySof$214
- ORA$214
- LenSx$214
- Clariti Contact Lens$113
- Mavenclad$110
- ACTIVEFOCUS$105
- ReSTOR$105
How this compares
$3,645 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,166 optometrist providers in Florida.
Other optometrist in Fort Lauderdale
- Julie RodmanFort Lauderdale$205K
- James HoffmanOrange Park$795K
- April JasperWest Palm Beach$553K
- Nora CothranLargo$505K
- Michael SluskyNorth Port$384K
- Katie SpearDefuniak Springs$361K
- Karen HoffmanOrange Park$282K
- Ashley RothMiami Beach$261K
- Jessica SteenDavie$256K
- Mark DunbarMiami$236K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.