Ryan Corte, OD
Optometrist · Asheville, NCNPI 1336402445
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (56.6%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. accounts for 77.3% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $165,279 and has fallen 59.0% since, to $67,716 in 2025. Among optometrist clinicians in NC 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 855 payments — averaging $665.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$440K
- Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$103K
- Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc.$21K
- AbbVie$2K
- Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
- Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$933
- plus $2K from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$114,75320%
- Speaking & faculty fees$321,90857%
- Travel & lodging$112,93020%
- Food & beverage$18,9743%
- Entertainment$5980%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc. | 646 | $440,141 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 155 | $102,549 |
| Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. | 17 | $20,534 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $2,330 |
| Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $1,048 |
| Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $933 |
| Optos, Inc. | 9 | $647 |
| Alcon | 13 | $597 |
| Coopervision Inc. | 4 | $202 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 1 | $86 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $76 |
| LKC Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
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.
- INFUSE$315,066
- ULTRA MULTIFOCAL TORIC$37,191
- BIOTRUE$36,898
- INFUSE MULTIFOCAL$30,938
- ULTRA$26,762
- BIOTRUE ONE DAY$26,762
- MULTI-FOCAL LENS$20,633
- Acuvue$20,105
- SOFLENS$12,074
- ZEN LENS$11,638
- MULTI-FOCAL$7,908
- LENSCRAFTERS$7,165
- BIOTRUE ONEDAY FOR PRESBYOPIA$2,762
- P200DTx$208
- P200T$208
- P200TE$208
- P200TxE$208
- Precision7$121
- TOTAL30$106
- MyDay Contact Lens$105
How this compares
$569,162 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,326 optometrist providers in North Carolina.
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 Asheville
- Crystal BrimerWilmington$920K
- Osama SaidRaleigh$597K
- Sanjay PatelApex$518K
- Sean SmolenyakRaleigh$512K
- Rachael WrubleBelmont$228K
- Lisa GreeneArden$186K
- Jennifer LyerlyMorrisville$164K
- Timothy PoirierKnightdale$130K
- Randall ThomasConcord$126K
- David WichnoskiCharlotte$109K
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.