Russell Heltsley
Optometrist · Bowling Green, KYNPI 1184709636
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 29 payments — averaging $31.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$161
- Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.$159
- Amgen$154
- Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.$151
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$56
- Rxsight Inc$55
- plus $183 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$919100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $161 |
| Oyster Point Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $159 |
| Amgen | 3 | $154 |
| Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc. | 2 | $151 |
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 1 | $56 |
| Rxsight Inc | 2 | $55 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $47 |
| Alcon | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sight Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biotissue Holdings 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.
- TEPEZZA$125
- TYRVAYA$117
- Tecnis IOL$117
How this compares
$919 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 712 optometrist providers in Kentucky.
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 Bowling Green
- John JeskieBowling Green$5K
- Kevin JacksonBowling Green$5K
- John BreiwaBowling Green$4K
- Paul KarpeckiLexington$3.7M
- Bilal AhmadLexington$150K
- Clay MattsonNicholasville$93K
- Ben LeonardCalvert City$75K
- Lee PeplinskiLouisville$74K
- Austin LifferthLouisville$72K
- Christopher KucLexington$53K
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.