Robert Szeliga
Optometrist · Spring Hill, TNNPI 1982778825
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (36.5%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Alcon accounts for 83.0% of it on its own, with 19 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $12,714 and has fallen 67.8% since, to $4,097 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in TN 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 303 payments — averaging $146.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Alcon$37K
- Coopervision Inc.$5K
- Lumenis BE Inc$974
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$357
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$276
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$228
- plus $852 from 14 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$16,15536%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,80522%
- Travel & lodging$8,61219%
- Food & beverage$9,69622%
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 | 198 | $36,762 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 42 | $4,820 |
| Lumenis BE Inc | 1 | $974 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 17 | $357 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $276 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 6 | $228 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $204 |
| Novartis | 4 | $158 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 4 | $148 |
| Dompe US, Inc. | 3 | $80 |
| Maculogix, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| ABB Con-cise Optical Group LLC | 2 | $44 |
| Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $24 |
| Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Tearlab Corp | 1 | $20 |
| Lombart Brothers, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Spark Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Alcon Research LLC | 1 | $13 |
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.
- Precision 1$17,691
- TOTAL30$10,990
- DAILIES TOTAL1$10,570
- Precision 7$3,780
- Biofinity Contact Lens$1,847
- DAILIES$1,767
- Non-Product Brand Specific$1,733
- AIR OPTIX$1,651
- Dailies Aqua Comfort Plus$990
- optilight$974
- DAILIES TOTAL1 Multifocal$443
- INFUSE$134
- ULTRA$125
- XIIDRA$122
- MyDay Contact Lens$119
- Precision7$106
How this compares
$44,267 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,122 optometrist providers in Tennessee.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Brimonidine Tartrate-TimololBrimonidine Tartrate/Timolol | 12 | $4,478 |
| Latanoprost | 102 | $2,161 |
| Brimonidine Tartrate | 20 | $2,086 |
| Timolol Maleate | 32 | $190 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other optometrist in Spring Hill
- Stephanie PriceSpring Hill$22K
- Christopher LievensMemphis$566K
- Whitney HauserMemphis$330K
- Torrey CarlsonKingsport$192K
- Frances BynumMartin$162K
- Melvin FriedmanMemphis$108K
- Kurt SteeleNewport$90K
- Jennifer DrakeColumbia$84K
- Travis JohnsonMurfreesboro$71K
- Courtney CapeDyersburg$51K
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.